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65th Congress, 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. | ^?^™^"^ 

3d Session. J ' ^o- ^365. 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES OF OFFICERS AND 

EMPLOYEES. 






LET TEE ,/ 



FROM 



THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, 



TRANSMITTING 



COMMUNICATION'S FROM THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPART- 
MENTS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHMENTS, SUB- 
MITTING SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR 
INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES OF OFFICERS AND EM- 
PLOYEES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1920. 



December 2, 1918. — Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be 

printed. 



Treasury Department, 
Office of the Secretary, 
, Wasliington, December 2, 1918. 

The Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration 
of Congress communications from the heads of executive departments 
and other Government establishments, submitting suppleraental 
estimates of appropriations for increases in statutory salaries of 
officers and employees for the fiscal year 1920, as foUows: 

State Department , 128, 450 

Navy Department 7, 600 

Interior Department 259, 320 

Department of Commerce ' 106, 580 

Department of Labor , , 22, 310 

Department of Justice 33, 884 

Post Office Department 8, 110 

District of Columbia 1, 643, 828 

State, War, and Navy Building 102, 600 

Government Printing Office 32, 500 

Library of Congress 50, 600 

Superintendent of building, Library 10, 615 

Botanic Garden 8, 500 

Civil Service Commission 37, 950 

Employees Compensation Commission 450 

Total : 2,353,297 

Respectfully, ' 



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W. G. McAdoo, Secretary, 



2 increase in stattitoey salaries. 

Department of wState, 
Washington, November 12, 191S. 
The Secretary op the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith for presentation to 
Congress a statement of proposed increases in statutory salaries 
for the offices and bureaus of the Department of State for the fiscal 
year 1920. 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 
salary. 



Increase. 



Chief clerk. 



$3,000 



$4,000 



$1,000 



This change is recommended for the reason that within the past 
four years the personnel and work of the depai tment has enormously 
increased. From a total personnel of approximately 200 in June, 
1914, the department has grown to a personnel of nearly 800 at the 
present time, or approximately a fourfold increase. A few- years 
ago the department did not occupy all the space in the south wing 
of the State, War, and Navy Building, but it now occupies both the 
south a.nd east wings and in addition a large building on the outside. 
In 1914 ths incoming and outgoing departmental pouches carrying 
dispatches from and instructions to our Diplomatic and Consular 
officers numbered 74 each week. Now they number over 150. 
The great expansion in the work of the department, illustrated by 
the examples cited, has thrown greatly increased duties and re- 
sponsibilities upon the chief clerk who is charged with the general 
supervision of the work and clerical force of the department. lu 
addition he is purchasing officer for the department and charged 
with the custody and responsibility of its property as well as having 
the practical superintendence of the buildings it occupies. The 
growth of the department has made his duties fully as onerous and 
responsible as those devolving upon officers of the other executive 
departments whose salaries are fixed by law at $4,000. Therefore 
it seems to me quite clear that the salary of this position should be 
raised to $4,000. 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 
salary. 



Increase. 



Assistant law clerk. 



$1, 500 



$2, 000 



This increase is recommended for the reason that this officer is in 
reality assistant editor of the laws of Congress, is engaged in assisting 
in the editing of the statutes, which it is believed deserves much 
higher compensation than $1,500. The work of this assistant law 
clerk requires an intimate knowledge of legislative procedure; of 
research and of the indexing and arranging of laws, as well as legal 
training. The work being done by the assistant law clerk, in my 
opinion, fully justifies the increase of compensation from $1,500 ta 
$2,000. ^ ^ 

D. «f •• 



FEB Z\. 



1919 






INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 



Increase. 



Three chiefs of bureaus. 
Five chiefs of bureaus . . 



$2, 250 
2,100 



$4, £00 
3,500 



$6, 750 
7,000 



These increases are requested for the reason that since the outbreak 
of the war in 1914 several bureaus of the department have consistently 
and continuously grown in personnel and quantity of work requiring 
supervision and action. As already stated, the personnel of the 
department alone is now practically four times that of 1914, but the 
personnel abroad shows a still larger increase. In the legation in 
Copenhagen in 1914 there were 2 men in addition to the minister;: 
to-day there are 37. In Paris there were 8 where there are now 63, 
In the embassy in London there were 8 officers; now there are ap- 
proximately 115. A similar increase could be shown in the personnel 
of the consular estabhshments. In 1914 the telegraphic correspond- 
ence of the department averaged approximately 80 telegrams a day; 
now it averages nearly 500 telegrams a day. The pieces of mail 
received daily averaged, in 1914, about 260; at present the average 
is over 900. The total expenditures for the Department of State for 
the fiscal year 1914 amounted to $4,788,132.29; those for the fiscal 
year 1918 amounted to $8,856, 642,.59. These few figures will show 
the great increase in the quantity of work but they can not show the 
growth in the responsibility involved. New principles now have to 
be considered with no precedents for guidance, requiring therefore 
unusual investigation and preparation. The various chiefs of bureaus 
since the war began as well as before, have given their time and ex- 
perience without stint to meet the requirements of the situation. 
Some of them have declined tempting offers at the department's re- 
quest and from motives of loyalty and patriotism have yielded to it 
tneir experience and judgment, often under trying and difficult 
circumstances. Aside from the sheer value of their services, acquired 
from years in the department work, the salaries estimated would 
constitute a substantial expression of well-deserved appreciation. 

But it is not alone in the interest of the present incumbents that 
the suggested increases in these salaries are recommended. The 
responsibilities of the positions wiU, in the future, be vastly greater 
than they are now and if it should unfortunately happen, as there is 
reason to believe that it may, that the present incumbents should 
find it to their interests, when their obligations to the Government 
are discharged, to accept more remunerative employment elsewhere, 
it would be absolutely impossible to obtain properly qualified suc- 
cessors for the salaries now provided by Congress. This is no ex- 
aggeration but a frank statement of fact. 

As wiU be perceived, it is suggested that three chiefs of bureaus, 
namely, chiefs of the diplomatic, consular, and accounts bureaus, be 
paid $4,500, and that the remaining chiefs of bureaus be given sala- 
ries, of $3,500. The reasons are that the three officers first mentioned 
have far greater responsibiUties than their colleagues. The chiefs of 
the diplomatic and consular bureaus are charged with the administra- 
tion of the Diplomatic and Consular Services. , The chief of the 
Bureau of Accounts is chargetl, not only with the usual duties of a 
disbursing officer, but also with the handUng of the accounts of the 



4 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

department and of the foreign service and the transaction of a great 
deal of business of a financial nature incident to foreign relations, 
thus placing him in a considerably different situation from that in 
which mere disbursing officers of other departments are placed. It 
is hoped that Congress may see its way clear to make the increases 
suggested. 



Chief messenger 

12 messen£;ers 

29 assistant, messengers. 

5 messenger boys 

1 packer 

6 switchboard operators 

9 laborers 

15 charwomen 



Present 
salary. 



$1,000 
840 
720 
420 
720 
720 
660 
240 



Proposed 

salary. 



$1,200 
1,000 

900 

600 
1,000 

840 
1,000 

300 



Increase. 



1,920 
5,220 
900 
280 
720 
3,060 
900 



These increases are requested for th6 reason that it is believed to be 
only fair that these employees should have more compensation in 
view of the present cost of living and wages being paid elsewhere. 
The Secretary of Labor has investigated the question, and the salaries 
herein recommended are understood to be in accordance with the 
conclusions reached by him after an e^caiiiinatioii of the subject. 

The total increases, therefore, in the,salaries '"oi the personnel now 
employed over that estimated for the n^t fiscaJ^year amounts in all 
to $28,450. /4 '''i 

I have the honor to be, sir, your ^bedient servant, 

'. 'Robert Lansing. 

V ... V 
Navy DepartmeIstt,' ^' 

SECREpVRY OF THE NaVY, 

Washington, November 16, 1918. 
Sir: J have the honor to submit the following statement for pres- 
entation to Congress of proposed increases in statutory salaries for 
the bureaus and offices of this department for the fiscal year 1920: 



Office of the Secretary: 

Assistant secretary 

Chief clerk 

Office of the solicitor, law clerk 

Office of the Judge Advocate General, chief law clerk 

Office ef chief of kaval operations, chief clerk 

Bureau of Navigation , chief clerk 

Office of naval intelUgence, chief clerk, in lieu of clerk of class 4 . 

Hydrographic office, chief clerk 

Naval observatory, chief clerk, m lieu of clerk of class 4 

Bureau of Steam Engineering, chief clerk 

Bureau of Construction and Repair, chief clerk 

Bureau of Ordnance, cliief clerk 

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery , chief clerk 

Bureau of Yards and Docks, chief clerk 



Total. 



Present 
salary. 



$5,000 
3,000 
2,500 
2,250 
2,250 
2,250 
1,800 
1,800 
1,800 
2,250 
2,250 
2,250 
2,250 
2,250 



17,500 
4,000 
3,000 
3,000 
2,500 
2,500 
2,000 
2,250 
2,250 
2,500 
2,500 
2,500 
2,500 
2,500 



?2,500 
1,000 
500 
750 
250 
250 
200 
450 
450 
250 
250 
250 
250 
250 

7,6£»0. 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 5 

The foregoing represent but a portion of the changes it will be 
necessary to make on the statutory rolls of the several bureaus and 
offices if Congress should decide to make permanent such positions 
as it may be found necessary to continue now filled by persons paid 
from lump-sum appropriations and carried as Naval Reserves. 
Many of these it will be necessary to retain and it will not be possible 
to hold them unless their compensation be made sufficiently attrac- 
tive. 

It is my purpose to have the whole question discussed with the 
appropriate congressional committee with the view to reaching a 
mutually satisfactory solution, which circumstances make necessary 
shall embrace appropriate provision for those men upon whom we 
have depended and must continue to depend for the proper dispatch 
of departmental business. 

I can not speak too highly of the valuable service rendered by the 
civilians occupying the more responsible positions since our partici- 
pation in the war became imminent. The organization of the Navy 
Department was such that when the time came for expansion, the 
work, exceptionally arduous and complex as it proved to be, was 
carried on without friction, without delay, and with results of which 
everyone can well be proud. This smooth working of its bureaus, 
and offices and their many ramifications was possible only for the 
reason that most of its principal clerks, all men of long experience in 
the Navy Department, remained at their stations heedless of the 
opportunities proferred them outside for salaries far in excess of what 
the Navy Department has ever paid, and these men formed the 
nucleus around which the largely increased but inexperienced per- 
sonnel was built. 

So, as I have said, the foregoing represent but a portion of the 
advancements it is desired and necessary to have made. Necessary^ 
because to keep them in our employ we must satisfy, as far as possi- 
ble, reasonable demands for compensation commensurate with their 
duties and capabilities, for I feel that with the termination of the 
war those concerns which have been doing business with the various 
branches of the Navy will be more than desirous of securing the 
assistance of departmental experts in the management and adjust- 
ment of their governmental business. 

Appended is an interesting and illuminating statement, prepared 
in the Bureau of Ordnance, comparing the pay of certain navy-yard 
(employees with that of departmental employees. 
Respectfully, yours, 

JosEPHUs Daniels. 

The Secretary of the Treasury. 



I]SrCEEASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Statement showing pay of mechanics, laborers, and clerics at navy yards and stations and in 

the Navy Department. 

MECHANICS AND LABORERS, NAVY YARDS. 





1913 


1918 




Per 
diem. 


Per 
annum. 


Per 
diem. 


Per 
annum. 


Machinist 


$3.52 
3.76 
5.00 
4.48 
2.00 


SI, 101. 76 

1,176.88 

1,565.00 

1, 402. 24 

626.00 


16 40 


to nnt on 


Toolmakers 


6 88 I "">' 1 s^ 2^ 


Masons, brick 


6.88 
6.88 
3.68 


2 153 44 


Patternmakers 


2 153 44 


Laborers 


1 151 84 









CLERICAL FORCE, NAVY YARDS. 












1913 


1918 




Average 

per 

diem. 


Average 

per 
amnum. 


Average 

per 

diem. 


Average 

per 
annum. 


Chief clerks 


$5.28 
4.48 
2.92 
1.04 


$1, 652. 64 

1,402.24 

907,96 

325.52 


$6.56 
6.56 
5.12 
2.60 


$2 053.28 


Supervisory clerks . . 


2,053.28 


Clerks 


1,602.56 


Messengers '. 


813.80 











CLERICAL FORCE, NAVY DEPARTMENT. 










Average per annum 




1913 


1918 


Chief clerks 


S2, 250 


?^, 250 


Chiefs of divisions 


2,200 


Supervisory clerks 


1,700 

1,1-^0 

500 


1,750 


Clerks . . .. 


1,120 


Messengers 


• 500 







Department of the Interior, 

Was'hingto7i, October 23, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith the following proposed 
increases in statutory .salaries for bureaus and offices of the Depart- 
ment of the Interior for the fiscal year 1920: 



Present 
salary. 



Pr6posed 
salary. 



Increase. 



First Assistant Secretary 

Assistant Secretary 

Assistant to the Secretary 

Commissioner of the General Land Office 

Commissioner of Indian Affairs 

Commissioner of Pensions 

Commissioner of Patents 

Commissioner of Education 

Director of the National Park Service 

Office of the Secretary, ne-i- positions: 

Administrative assistant to the Secretary 

Medical inspector 

Deputy disbursing clerk 

Clerk of class 3 

Clerk of class 2 

2 clerks of class 1 

Type Titer repairer 

Automobile mechanic (in lieu of 1 clerk at $1,200)'. 

Electrician (in lieu of 1 skilled laborer at $900) 

2 assistant engineers 



.$5, 000 
4,500 
2,750 
5,000 
5,000 
5,000 
5,000 
5,000 
4,500 



$7,500 
7,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 

3, 600 
2,250 
2,250 
1,600 
1,400 
1,200 
1,400 
1,400 
1,200 
1,200 



$2,500 
2,500 
3,250 
1,000 
1,000 
1,000 
1,000 
1,000 
1,500 

3,600 
■ 2,250 
2,250 
1,600 
1,400 
2,400 
1,400 
1,400 
1,200 
2,400 



INOKEASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 7 

The increases in salary indicated are recommended because of the 
great volume of work handled and the increased measure of respon- 
sibility in dispatching the sam^e, coupled with the fact that the cost 
of living has so greatly increased ; the new places requested are neces- 
sary to the proper and expeditious consideration of the great increase 
in the business passing through 'the Secretary's office. 



Office of Solicitor for Interior Department. 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 
salary. 



Increase. 



2 additional assistant attorneys . 
2 additional assistant attorneys ' 
2 additional assistant attorneys. 
1 medical expert 



$2, 000 



$3, 000 
2,750 
2,500 
2,500 



$4, 500 



500 



1 In lieu ot 6 assistant attorneys, at $2,000 each. 

The salaries for assistant attorneys heretofore provided are so 
low in comparison with those obtaining in other departments and 
bureaus that offers of appointment to tried and efficient men have 
been declined on account of the small pay and meager prospect of 
obtaining a reasonable salary through promotion. Some of the most 
capable and efficient attorneys have in recent years resigned to accept 
more lucrative positions or places offering a greater opportunity for 
advancement. 

Under existing conditions the attorney whose duties require him 
to appear for the department with the solicitor in the courts of the 
District, and the Supreme Court of the United States, receives but 
$2,750 per annum for his services. It is apparent that this attorney 
and others of his associates whose work is perhaps equally as im- 
portant and difficult are very much underpaid, it is believed that 
only a sufficient number of the lower salaried positions should be 
retained to provide for attorneys newly appointed, and that one 
who shows himself qualified for so responsible a place should be 
afforded a reasonable prospect of promotion. 

The position of medical expert, created for this office, is some- 
what unique in that it is the only one of its kind in the department. 
Hence, unlike others performing technical work, there is no way 
one holding such position may be promoted, however worthy his 
services may be. It is one that calls for a thorough knowledge of 
medicine in aU its branches, including those usually specialized; 
necessitates practical' experience ; constant study and special train- 
ing, as well as familiarity with the pension laws and .practice 
therexmder. 

The present incinnbent has filled this position for many years in 
a most credible manner. He has been a graduate of medicine for 
40 years ; has never ceased to practice and study his profession ; has 
served over five years as a medical officer in the Regular Army, and 
for the past 27 years has been employed in this department, engaged 
exclusively in medical work. He is a member of the Amierican 
Medical Association, Association of Military Surgeons of the United 
States and a member of the District of Columbia Medical Society. 



IlsrCEEASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

INDIAN OFFICE. 



Assistant commissioner 

Claief clerk 

Financial clerk 

4 chiefs of division at $2,400 in lieu of one at $2,250, one at $2,000, and one 

assistant chief of division at $2,000. (One new position) 

Law clerk 

Private secretary 

Examiner of irrigation accounts , 

Draftsman 

Do... 

20 clerks at $2,000, in lieu of that number at $1,800 each 

31 clerks at $1,800 in lieu of that number at $1,600 each 

38 clerks at $1,600 in lieu of that number at $1,400 each 

2 clerks at $1,700 in lieu of that number at $1,500 each 

68 clerks at 81,400 m lieu of that number at $1,200 each 

32 clerks at $1,200, in lieu of that number at $1,000 each 

34 clerks at $1,100, in lieu of that number at $900 each 

2 clerks at $900, in lieu of that number at $720 each 

1 messenger 

4 assistant messengers at $840, in lieu of that number at $720 each 

4 messenger boys at $600 each, in lieu of that number at $420 each 



Present 
salary. 



$3, 500 
2,750 
2,250 

6,250 

2,000 

1,800 

1,800 

1,400 

1,200 

36, 000 

49, 600 

53, 200 

3,000 

81, 600 

32,000 

30, 600 

1,440 

840 

2,880 

1,680 



Proposed 

salary. 



$4,000 
3,000 
2,400 

9,600 

2,400 

2,400 

2,000 

1,600 

1,400 

40, 000 

55, 800 

60, 800 

3,400 

95, 200 

38, 400 

37,400 

1,800 

900 

3,360 

2,400 



$500 
250 
150 

3,350 

400 

600 

200 

200 

200 

4,000 

6,200 

7,600 

. 400 

13,600 

6,400 

6,800 

360 

60 

480 

720 



The salaries now paid employees of the Indian Bureau were estab- 
lished a great many years ago, when prices and living conditions 
were entirely different from what they are to-day. Also, it is getting 
more difficult to obtain and retain satisfactory employees at the 
salaries now paid. The bureaus of the Government established in 
recent years pay larger salaries than the older bureaus of the Govern- 
ment. Outside commercial houses in recent years have as a general 
rule materially increased the salaries of their employees. 

In view of the greatly increased cost of living, the difficulty in 
procuring satisfactory employees at the salaries now paid, the great 
responsibilities connected with the positions of the officials and 
employees of the Indian Bureau, and in order to meet changed 
conditions and do justice to faithful employees, the increases sug- 
gested should be granted, it being understood that these proposed 
mcreases will not include the S120 increase now paid. 

General Land Office. 



Present 


Proposed 


salary. 


salary. 


$3,500 


$4,000 


2,500 


3,000 


4,400 


5,400 


6,000 


7,500 


2,000 


2,400 


18,000 


21,600 


2,000 


2,400 


16,000 


20,000 


8,000 


8,800 


7,200 


8,000 


12,800 


14,400 


7,200 


8,800 


16,000 


18,000 


28,000 


32,000 


24,000 


28,000 


10, 000 


12,000 


9,000 


10, 000 


10,080 


12,600 


2,000 


2,400 



Increase. 



Assistant commissioner , 

Chief law clerk , 

2 law clerks, $2,200 to $2,700 

3 law examiners of surveyors general's oflices, $2,000 to $2,500 

Recorder 

9 chiefs of division, $2,000 to $2,400 

Assistant chief of division 

8 law examiners, $2,000 to $'',500 

4 law examiners, $2,000 to $2,200 : 

4 law examiners, $1,800 to $2,000 

8 law examiners, $1,600 to $1,800 

4 accountants, at $2,200, in lieu of that number of clerks at $1,800 

10 clerks, $1,600 to $1,800 

20 clerks, $1,400 to $1,600 

20 clerks, $1,200 to $1,400 

10 clerks, $1,000 to $1,200 

10 copyists, $900 ; clerks, at $1,000 

14 copyists, $720 to $900 

Depositary (receiving clerk) 



$500 
500 

1,000 

1,500 
400 

3,600 
400 

4,000 



1,600 
1,600 
2,000 
4,000 
4,000 
2,000 
1,000 
2,520 
400 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



9 



These increases are considered necessary to keep in the service 
experienced employees, the loss of whose services would very seriously 
interfere with the proper conduct of the office, and to secure new 
employees to bring up to normal a very much depleted force. While 
employees may be, and have been, prohibited from going into other 
branches of the service where they would receive materially higher 
salaries for similar services, they can not be prevented from quitting 
the service and accepting positions with private concerns which are 
offering and paying higher salaries than can be paid under present 
appropriations for .this office. 

The condition of the work in the General Land Office is not nearly 
as current as it should be. The principal cause contributing to the 
arrears is inability to procure or retain experienced employees. Dur- 
ing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, with a force of less than 500, 
there were 177 separations from the office. There were 173 new 
appointments during the year, of which nearly half were tem.porary. 
The excessive number of temporary employees indicates the difficulty 
the office is confronted with; nobod} without experience can handle 
any except the simplest work of the office efficiently. To a large 
extent those who have left have been the younger and more efficient 
employees. The positions with salaries of $1,000 or less, which 
constitute about one-third of the clerical force, avails the office little, 
except for file clerks and others without experience. 

Salaries for the General Land Office were established more than 50 
years ago, since which time salaries with private concerns have 
more than doubled, and the cost of living has more than kept apace. 
It is impossible to get satisfactory employees at the present entrance 
salaries, and in order to get absolutelj^ necessary employees higher 
salaries have been offered than are being paid to experienced em- 
ployees already in the office, only to be rejected in many cases by 
those to whom offered. To do this it is necessary to deny deserved 
promotions, /v^hich, of course, is unjust. 



Education office. 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 

salary. 



Increase. 



Assistant commissioner 

Secretar5- to the commissioner 

Assistant specialists in higher education (2) 

Assistant specialist in higher education 

Assistant editor 

Specialist in foreign educational systems. .• '. . 

Clerks of class four (6) 

Clerks of class three (6) 

Clerks of class two (8) 

Clerks of class one (5) 

Draftsman 

Lantern-slide artist 

Multigraph operator 

Addressograph operator 

Messenger 

Skilled laborers {2) 

Chief clerk 

Specialist in higher education. 

Editor 

Statistician 

Specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics. 

Translator. 

Specialist in foreign educational systems 



$2,000 
3,000 
2,000 
1,800 
1,800 
1,800 
1,800 



$4, 500 
2.400 
4; 000 
3, 500 
2, 400 
3,500 
1,800 
1,600 
1,400 
1,200 
1,800 
1,000 
1,200 
1,200 
1,000 
840 
2,500 
4,500 
3,000 
3,000 
2,200 
2,000 
2,000 



S54, 500 

2,400 

8,000 

3,500 

2,400 

3,500 

10, 800 

9, 600 

11,200 

6,000 

1,800 

1,600 

1,200 

1,200 

1,000 

1, 680 

500 

1,500 

1,000 

1,200 

400 

200 

200 



10 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

These increases in the force and in salaries are requested because 
the work of the Bureau of Education has grown very ra]ndly in the 
last few years, the activities of the bureau are much wider, and there 
is reason to believe that the duties which it must undertake will be 
much greater in the immediate future. It is not possible to secure or 
retain persons qualified to fill these positions at the salaries now 
allowed because of the increased cost of living, the constant demand 
for the services of such people m other fields, and the higher salaries 
paid officers and teachers in schools and colleges and in all positions 
connected with the administration of public-school systems. 



National Park Service. 


Present 

salary. 


Proposed 

salary. 


Increase. 




$1, 400 
900 
900 


$1, 600 
1,200 
1,200 


$200 


2 clerks . . 


600 


3 clerks - 


900 







The last two years have seen a remarkable expansion in the duties 
with which the National Park Service is charged, due, first, to the 
enactment of legislation creating new national park areas and alter- 
ing past administration of the park system; and, second, to the 
steady increase of popular interest in the parks. The volume of bus- 
iness transacted in the bureau has increased to correspond and much 
is in the form of correspondence and documents. 

The service's mails and files work, reflecting its activities, has almost 
doubled since the date of commencement of operations as an inde- 
pendent bureau. This important branch is in charge of a clerk, at 
$1,400, aided at times by a clerk at $900 and a messenger. This 
$1,400 clerk has not been promoted since July 1, 1914, and the respon- 
sibility resting upon him and the duties required of him, as well as 
the loyal, efficient service he has rendered while with the Park Service, 
and also with the Secretary's office, makes him especially deserving 
of promotion to $1,600. Were he to leave the service now it would 
be almost impossible to satisfactorily fill the position. The increase 
to $1,600 is therefore recommended with the twofold purpose of 
more properly compensating the holder of the clerkship and of 
retaining the present appointee. 

Respecting the increase in the two $900 clerkships to $1,200. If 
either place becomes vacant it will be impossible under present con- 
ditions to fill it with a competent stenographer. Indeed, it was with 
the greatest difficulty that the service secured and retained the pres- 
ent $900 clerks. Both are rendering exceedingly satisfactory service 
and it would be extremely detrimental to the National Park Service 
to lose them. They could both obtain positions outside at very 
much higher salaries. In fact, one of them since coming to the Park 
Service has refused two offers of positions, one of which would have 
carried a salary of over $1,300 per annum and the other $1,400 by 
now. The service can not afford to lose these young women, and it 
is earnestly hoped that the recommendation of the two $1,200 posi- 
tions, to take the place of the two $900 now provided by Congress, 
will receive favorable consideration. These promotions are due and 
richly deserved. 



INCREASE IN" STATUTOEY SALARIES. 



11 



Patent Office. 



Assistant Commissioner 

2 chiefs of cleriral divisions. . 
5 assistant chiefs of divisions. 

3 clerks of class 4 

3 clerks of class 3 

13 clerks of class 2 

1 skilled draftsman 

2 skilled draftsmen 

4 draftsmen 

14 copyists 



Total. 



Present 
salary. 



S3, 500 



1,200 
1,200 
1,000 



Proposed 
salary. 



Increase. 



$500 

4,000 

9,000 

5,400 

4,800 

18, 200 

400 

400 

800 

14,000 



57,500 



The total number of employees provided for the Patent Office by 
the legislative, executive, amd judicial appropriation bill for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, is 959. The estimates above sub- 
mitted make no change in this total number of employees, but propose 
a number of changes in grades and salaries. 

It will be observed that all the changes submitted, excepting only 
the Assistant Commissioner's position, appertain to clerical positions 
in the Patent Office. 

The duties of the Assistant Commissioner of Patents are very simi- 
lar and substantially commensurate with those of the First Assistant 
Commissioner, who quite properly, receives $4,500. An increase of 
$500 for the Assistant Commissioner would more equitably compen- 
sate him for the services he renders. 

In regard to the remaining proposals, touching clerical positions, 
it may be said, frankly, that they are made in view of a growing state 
of dissatisfaction and mirest in the Patent Office. The clerks in 
that office, almost without exception, believe that clerks in other 
departments uniformly receive higher salaries for similar work and 
in many instances for work less exacting and requiring less training 
and skill. They are told every day that wholly inexperienced young 
girls in large numbers are called to this city and appointed at $1,000, 
$1,100, $1,200, and sometimes higher salaries, with promises of pro- 
motion in from three to six months. It is not difficult to imagine 
the effect upon the. minds of those who, day after day, hear of these 
instances, and who are themselves able to verify a sufficient number 
to justify a belief that all rumors are true. 

As evidence of the truth of what is reported a telegram received 
recently by a temporary employee in the Patent Office is here quoted: 

Miss Grace L. Gillions, 

504 Eleventh Street SW., Washington, D. C. 
Civil Service Commission certifies you for appointment if you desire appointment 
at $1,100 per annum, with assurance of $1,200 at the end of three months, and |1,320 
at the end of six months. Report immediately to the undersigned, or wire your 
intentions. The Room Registry Office, 1414 H Street, will aid you in securing room 
and board. 

Capt. Geo. F. Daggett, 
Military Intelligence Division, 1330 F Street, Washington. 

And there is further good ground for complaint. The purchasing 
power of a dollar has now shrunk to a point where a salary of $1,200 
to-day amounts to not much more than the equivalent of $700 or 
$800 five years ago. The Patent Office clerks have learned this by 
the painful trial of experience, and very many of them who have 



12 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

worked for five years or more without a promotion and who have 
little or no prospect' of promotion for five years in the future, are 
inclined to regard themselves as unfairly treated. They see mere 
novices everywhere engaged at as much or more than they receive 
after all their years of faithful service, and the result has been that a 
considerable number of the best of these clerks have sought, and a 
number have obtained, transfers to other bureaus under the Govern- 
ment with a view to receiving better pay; a larger number have re- 
signed outright — several to take positions at higher salaries in the 
notoriously underpaid profession of teaching. Others have sought 
to obtain promotions by interesting Members of Congress, who gen- 
erally express surprise at the existence of a condition of affairs such as 
is here set down. Very many others are continually begging to be 
promoted, and asserting that they can not possibly live on the sal- 
aries they receive. 

In drafting the above noted proposals for increases in salaries not 
only the cause of the clerks but also the general betterment of the 
office has been kept in mind. 

The reason for asking for two additional chiefs of clerical divisions 
is that the application and docket clerks of the Patent Office are each 
in an administrative position, exercising immediate supervision over 
approximately 10 to 15 clerks. Each should be made the chief of a 
division — one to be known as the application division and the other 
as the docket clerk division. 

If the above suggestion be adopted the Patent Office will have eight 
clerical divisions and it should have an assistant chief for each of these 
divisions. It now has only three assistant chiefs of divisions for six 
clerical divisions. It asks an increase of five assistant chiefs. 

At the present time, counting aU possible places, there are only 45 
clerical positions in the Patent Office to which a clerk receiving SI, 200 
can hope to aspire by promotion. In fact there are practically less 
from the point of view of a female clerk for it has never been the cus- 
tom to promote a woman to the position of chief or assistant chief of a 
division. To open up a prospect of promotion to those who are 
receiving $1,200 request has been made for three additional clerks of 
class 4, three of class 3, and 13 of class 2. These particular changes 
are regarded as especially desirable and aU but indispensable to the 
future welfare of the office. 

Also there is recommended an increase of 14 clerks at $1,000. The 
Patent Office has experienced great difficulty of late in getting suitable 
clerks who have passed the Civil Service examination to accept ap- 
pointment at $900 per annum, and this would be quite impossible but 
for the $120 additional compensation provided by the appropriation 
bin for the current year. 

A more regrettable feature in the situation is the fact that the Civil 
Service Commission does not submit to the Patent Office the names of 
the most competent clerks or typists who pass its examinations when 
called upon for certifications to fill $900 positions. This is due to no 
fault of the commission but arises from the fact that the commission 
certifies as a rule only the names of persons who state in their exami- 
nation papers that they will accept $900 or less. The better class of 
clerks and typists state in their papers that they wiU accept $1,000 to 
$1,200, and these are naturally certified to departments that pay cor- 
responding salaries to new appointees. A very large number of those 



INCREASE IN" STATUTORY SALARIES. 



13 



who accept $900 positions in the Patent Office seek releases shortly 
after beginning service, and several have presented resignations to 
accept positions at higher pay outside the Government service. The 
only remedy seems to be to provide salaries for this office corre- 
sponding to those paid elsewhere. 

The above proposals call for 40 new places in grades paying more 
than S720 per annum. The Patent Ofnce has a grade of copyist at 
$720 with 40 positions in that grade. It is desired that that grade 
be entirely discontinued. Only five of the bureaus in the Interior 
Department have such a grade and of these the Patent Office employs 
seven more copyists at $720 than the other four bureaus combined. 

The statement has been made that the Patent Office employs nearly 
one half of aU the $720 copyists serving in the entire departmental 
service. 

Dropping the $720 copyist grade in the Patent Office is recom- 
mended also for the reason that in that office for two years at least 
it has been filled almost without exception, and is now entirely filled, 
by temporary employees, possessed of the most indifferent qualifi- 
cations. The Civil Service Commission makes no attempt to certify 
names for this grade and it has been possible to fill or partially fill these 
positions only hj accepting those who have but nicely begun, or at 
best have just finished, an elementary course in typewritiug. Several 
of the employees in this grade are too young to take the civil-service 
examination, and of aU of them it may be said that, taken on an 
average, it requires 2^ to 3 of them to do the work of one good 
typist. Dropping this grade wiU reduce by $28,800 the salary in- 
creases otherwise proposed, leaving a net increase of but $28,700. 

The estimate for special and temporary typewriters for which the 
current appropriation biU provides $5,000 has been omitted this year 
in the belief that the better grade of help which the above recom- ' 
mendations would insure justifies this change. 

Among the proposed increases of salaries are one of $400, and two 
of $200 each for three $1,200 draftsmen; and four of $200 each for 
four $1,000 draftsmen. A comparison of the salaries paid draftsmen 
in any other branch of the Government service with the salaries paid 
in the Patent Office will show the basis of this recommendation. 

A table showing such a comparison, prepared as far back as 1916, 
is here reproduced : 



Branch of service. 



Number 

of 
draftsmen 
employed. 



Coast and Geodetic Survey 

Oflace of Supervising Architect, Treasury iSepart 

ment 

Quartermaster General's Office, WarDepartment'.! 
Bureau of Ordnance, Yards and Docks, Navy De 

partment 

Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.'. ......... 

Lighthouse Bureau, Department of Commerce 

Division of Publications, Agricultural Department . 
Chief of Ordnance, War Department.. . . 

Chief of Staff, Army War College 

Indian Office 

Forestry !!!!!!!!!!!! 

Hydrographic Office, Navy Department...!".!!".".!! 

Grand totals of 12 branches of service 



276 



Total of 

salaries 

paid. 



837, 600 

126, 900 
24, 000 

3,200 
26, 200 

8.600 
17, 500 
69, 600 
11, 800 

2,600 
44, 020 
34, 000 



405,320 



Average. 



$1, 709 

1,692 
1,600 

1,600 
1,445 
1,433 
1,346 
1,344 
1,311 
1,300 
1, 257 
1,250 



1,472 



Highest 
salary. 



$2, 400 



Lowest 
salary. 



$1, 000 



2,400 


1,100 


1,800 


1,400 


1,800 


1,400 


1,800 


1,200 


1,800 


1,200 


1,600 


1,200 


2,200 


900 


1,800 


1,000 


1,400 


1,200 


2,000 


900 


1,800 


900 



Patent Office: Seven men, average $1,085; two grades, Jl,200 and $1,000. 



14 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

The Patent Office has had two vacancies in the $1,000 draftsman 
position for many months. One has been filled by a woman holding 
a temporary clerical position; the other has remained vacant, and 
neither the Civil Service Commission nor the appointing officers of 
the office have been able to find a sufficiently skilled person who 
would accept it. Those who at present are employed at this work 
are dissatisfied and some of them are asking to be released to take 
work elsewhere at higher pay. Total increase in salaries recom- 
mended $259,320. 

The foregoing statement is supplementary to the regular estimates 
and I have to request that it be brought to the attention of Congress. 
Cordially, yours, 

Franklin K. Lane. 

Department op Commerce, 
Washington, November 8, 1918. 
My Dear Mr. Secretary: The annual estimates of the Depart- 
ment of Commerce of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 
30, 1920, include no increases in statutory salaries, but you are re- 
quested to transmit to the Congress for its consideration the following 
recommendations for increases: 

THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. 

Assistant chief cleric and superintendent, at -$2,250, in lieu of one 
cleric of class 4- — This increase is asked for in order that the salary of 
a worthy and capable employee can be made more nearly commen- 
surate with the responsibilities devolving upon him. 

He handles many important administration details, assists in the 
care of the building and its equipment, the supervision of the main- 
tenance force, and in the absence of the chief clerk and superintendent 
performs all the duties of that officer; is doing so to-day. 

He is a valuable employee and has an excellent knowledge of the 
departinent in general, having been connected with it since February, 
1904. The position is well worth the salary requested, which is lower 
than that paid by some departments for similar positions. 

Chief, Division of Supplies, $2,600, in lieu of Chief, Division of Sup- 
plies, at $2,100. — There are two other chiefs of division in the office 
of the Secretary carrying $2,500 salaries. The duties of the Chief, 
Division of Supplies, are equally as important, and in the interests of 
fairness and good administration the salary attached to this office 
should be the same. 

Two assistant chiefs of division (one Appointments and one Supplies), 
at $2,000 each, in lieu of two clerics of class 4- — It is desired to assign 
one of these positions to the Appointment Division and the other to 
the Division of Supplies. The incumbents of these positions are 
clerks of class 4, with office designations as "acting chief of division" 
in the absence of their respective chiefs, and are justly entitled to the 
increase requested. 

The employee filling this position in the Appointment Division has 
an exceptional knowledge of civil-service procedure. The chief of 
this division is the departmental, and frequently acts as the Civil 
Service Commission's, representative on the examining board of the 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 15 

Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. This and other duties 
necessitate the employee in question assuming the responsibihties of 
the chief of the division. 

The position in the Division of Supplies is similar to that in the 
Appointment Division, in that the incumbent possesses a thorough 
knowledge of the work peculiar to that division. The chief of this 
division frequently serves on departmental and interdepartmental 
committees, which necessitates the employee in question performing 
the duties of that officer. He handles much of the routine work of 
the office, is a v^aluable employee, and well deserving of the increase 
requested. 

Additional for cleric designated to act as deputy disbursing cleric, $300, 
to malce salary $2,100, now $1,800. — This officer is bonded for faithful 
and honest discharge of his duties, which include the signing of official 
checks in the absence of the disbursing clerk and the supervision of 
the general work of the office. The incumbent has been employed in 
the office for more than 15 years and is entitled to the increase asked. 

One chief telephone operator, at $1,400, in lieu of one cleric at $1,000. — 
It is desired to increase the salary of the employee who is in charge 
of the department's telephone service from $1,000 to $1,400. The 
department is fortunate in having a most expert and efficient em- 
ployee who could command a much higher salary elsewhere. The 
Civil vService Commission has consented to her promotion to the 
$1,400 class with the understanding that an estimate would be sub- 
mitted for the position of chief telephone operator at that salary. 
Similar positions piay as much and more in other, departments. 

Three in lieu of one slcilled laborer, at $1,000, estimated for. — One 
in lieu of one skilled laborer, at $900; and one in lieu of one skilled 
laborer, at $840. 

One of these positions is desired in order to more nearly compen- 
sate the man in charge of the departmental stable, who also acts as 
chauffeur to the Secretary of Commerce. This employee is most 
capable, efficient, and deserving of the slight increase requested and 
could readily command a much larger salary elsewhere. He has been 
receiving the same salary since July 1, 1911. 

The other position is desired for an employee who cares for and 
makes rej)airs to the various duplicating, folding, sealing, and stap- 
ling machines in the Division of Publications. The position requires 
unusual skill, and the present salary is entirely too small for the 
class of work performed. 

Two instead of one carpenter, at $1,000, estimated for. — One in lieu 
of one carpenter, at $900. This is in lieu of one carpenter, at $900, 
estimated for, in order to retain the services of the present employee 
who can command a higher salary outside the Government service. 

One chief watchman, at $1,000, in lieu of one chief watchman at 
$900. — It IS desired to increase the salary of this position $100 to 
better compensate the employee filling the same and to make it 
more nearly equal to similar positions in other departments. 

THE BUREAU OF LIGHTHOUSES. 

Superintendent of Naval Construction, increase from $3,000 to $4,000 
per annum. — The present pay is inadequate considering the responsi- 
bility and work of this position, the qualifications required, and the 



16 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

compensation paid for similar services by shipbuilders, and the 
demand for men having the qualifications possessed by the present 
incumbent of this position. 

Assistant engineer, increase from $2,000 to $2,400 per annum, — 
This assistant engineer is engaged on marine engineering work, and the 
pay authorized is inadequate under present conditions for the quali- 
fications required and the responsibility of the position. 

Additional compensation for marine draftsmen, $1,200. — Great diffi- 
culty is experienced in keeping the positions of draftsmen in the 
bureau's office competently filled "at the authorized rates of pay, 
owing to the increased demand for draftsmen and the higher com.- 
pensation offered by shipbuilders. An increase of $1,200 is requested 
to enable the Commissioner of Lighthouses to pay additional com- 

Sensation to draftsmen employed on marine engineering work in the 
>ureau of Lighthouses, the pay of such draftsmen in no case to 
exceed a rate of $2,000 per annum. 

Glerl: at $1 ,600 per annum in lieu of cleric at $900 per annum, and 
cleric at $1 ,200 per annum in lieu of cleric at $900 per annum. — Owing 
to the difficulty in keeping the lower paid clerical positions compe- 
tently filled in the Bureau of Lighthouses and the increase of work 
requiring a high order of clerical ability, due to m,.ore • complicated 
methods of contracting for coal and other supplies and materials, 
the bureau's cooperation with other branches of the Government 
service, and commercial interests under present conditions, it is very 
desirable that the two present positions at $900 be abolished and in 
lieu thereof there be authorized one additional clerk in class 3 ($1,600 
per annum) and one additional clerk in class 1 ($1,200 per annum). 

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. 

The increase from $2,750 to $3,000 in the annual salary of Mr. 
Arthur J. Tyrer, deputy commissioner, is earnestly recommended 
because he is the one man in the office whom I regard as indispensable 
on account of his experience in the office covering nearly 16 years 
(9 of which have been as deputy commissioner), his entire trust- 
worthiness, and his knowledge of the relations to one another of the 
different branches of Government now connected with shipping, a 
knowledge which makes him useful to other branches of Government 
as well as to the bureau on the pay roll of which he is carried. 

Mr. William M. Lytle, chief clerk of the bureau, should be pro- 
moted from $2,000 to $2,500 per annum. This recommendation is 
based on the excellent work being done by this officer. He has been 
in the bureau since its creation in 1884 and has extensive knowledge 
of the details of each branch of the bureau's work. The increase in 
shipping and our cooperation with the Shipping Board have added 
materiaUy to his duties. 

Mr. Albert C. Kirwan, United States Shipping Commissioner at 
Baltimore, receives but $1,200 and is recommended for $1,500 per 
annum. The work of this office in the shipment and discharge of 
seamen alone has increased nearly 500 per cent since 1914. He has 
been in the service for years, has a family, and should be paid a living 
wage. Much additional work devolves on him as well as on the other 
shipping officers because of the existing requirements in regard to 
identification of seamen, etc. 



INCEEASE IN" STATUTORY SALARIES. 17 

Mr. Augustus R. Smith, United States Shipping Commissioner at 
Philadelphia, is receiving $2,400, which should be increased to $3,000 
per annum. This recommendation is based on the material increase 
in the importance of the work at that port. I am informed that Mr. 
Smith is one of the most efficient of our shipping commissioners. 

Mr. Smith E. Reynolds, United States Shipping Commissioner at 
New Orleans, La., is receiving $1,500 per annum and should have 
$2,000. The work at this port has increased since 1914 over 400 per 
cent in the shipment and discharge of seamen alone. Mr. Reynolds 
also is an excellent officer, takes especial interest in his work, and is 
entitled to this increase. 

THE BUREAU OF STANDARDS. 

I desire to call your attention to a very serious situation at the 
Bureau of Standards in connection with the salaries of its leaders. 
These salaries are nowhere near those paid by the industrial concerns 
for the same grade of service, nor are the increases submitted based 
upon present conditions. Indeed, these increases were submitted 
three or four years ago and represent what should have been paid at 
that time. In most cases the salaries of om' leaders are not over 
50 per cent of those paid elsewhere. There can be but one result, 
namely, a serious deterioration of the quality of the Bureau's per- 
sonnel; this needs no argument from me. During the past three or 
four years the bureau has lost many of its best men. The loss of 
these men leads to inefficient work and tends to destroy the bureau's 
usefulness to the public, and I recommend the specific increases in 
salaries submitted herewith. 

The salary of the chief phvsicist and chief chemist should be raised 
to $5,500 or $6,000 per year." 

The three division chiefs, now receiving $3,600, should be raised to 
$4,500. 

The secretary should receive an increase to $2,700 or $3,000. 

The salary of the chief mechanician and superintendent of shops 
should be increased to $3,000. 

The superintendent of the mechanical plant should be raised to 
$3,000. 

The chief clerk should be increased to $2,500. ■ 

The photographer should be increased to $1,600. 

The superintendent of the woodworking shop should be increased to 
$1,800. 

The salary of the glass blower should be increased to $1,800. 

The salary of the foreman of janitors and laborers should be in- 
creased to $1,200. 

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. 

Chief, printing and sales section. — This is an important and respon- 
sible position, and the salary of $2,000, appropriated July 1, 1918, is 
much below fair compensation for the ability required and duties 
performed. 

This section prints, stocks, and distributes the 662 different charts 
issued by the Coast Survey. The output is about 250,000 prints per 

H. Doc. 1365, 65-3 2 



18 



INCEEASE IN STATTJTOEY SALARIES. 



annum. From 40 to 50 persons are employed. Its chief is held 
responsible for keeping the bureau's charts in print and maintaining 
a constant supply corrected to date and immediately available. This 
responsibility during war time has been particularly grave. The 
successful carrying on of these duties requires technical knowledge and 
business training, together with ability to direct the work of others. 
In the United States Geological Survey S4,000 is paid for similar 
work. It is recommended that a salary of not less than S2,400 be 
provided for this position. 

Salaries: Aids. — It is also recommended that instead of 19 aids at 
$1,000 each 16 aids at $1,100 each be provided, making the total 
number of aids 26, at $1,100. 



BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Deputy commissioner, ^4,000 {increase of $500).— The inadequacy 
of the salary of the Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries, as compared 
with the salaries of deputy commissioners or assistant chiefs of other 
technical or scientific bureaus of the Government, is shown in the 
following tabulation : 



Establishment. 


Salary. 


Ratio to 

salary of 

chief. 


EstabUshment. 


Salary. 


Ratio to 

salary of 

chief. 


Patent Office 


$4,000 
3,250 
4,500 
4,000 
4,000 
4,000 


Per cent. 
90 
65 
90 
80 
80 
88 


Bureau of Biological Survey . . 


S3, 250 
4,000 
4,000 
4,000 
3,500 


Per cent. 
9a 


Weather Bureau 


88 


Bureau of Plant Industry 

Forest Service 


Bureau of Lighthouses 

Coast and Geodetic Survey . . . 


80 
60 


Bureau of Chemistry 


58 


Bureau of Entomology 







The present occupant of this position entered the Fishery Service 
through competitive examination in 1896, and after most acceptably 
filling various technical positions in regular course, was appointed 
deputy commissioner in 1915. He is a graduate of the University of 
Pennsylvania with the degree of doctor of philosophy, and was rec- 
ommended for this position because he was generally adjudged as 
being preeminently qualified therefor by training, experience, and 
practical demonstration of fitness. 

Four assistants in charge of divisions ofJisJi culture, inquiry respect- 
ing food fisJies, and fisheries industries, and Alaslca service, at $3,500 
{increase of $800, $800, $1,000, and $500, respectively).— E&ch of these 
positions, together with that of assistant in charge of Alaska service, 
for which provision is made in the regular estimates, requires a man 
with long technical training and experience. These positions are 
filled by highly qualified men whose work is most efi^ective and meets 
with the hearty support of the fishery interests and the general public. 
The importance of the duties and the results achieved in making pos- 
sible and promoting the increased consumption of aquatic products 
merit full recognition by Congress. The present salaries in two cases 
are less than were formerly paid, and are very materially under the 
salaries allowed for corresponding positions or similar services in other 
bureaus of the Department of Commerce and in other departments. 
The following compilation, based on the Official Register for 1917, 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



19 



indicates that the maximum and average salaries paid to division 
chiefs or similar officials in 12 other Government bureaus are uni- 
formly higher than in the Bureau of Fisheries. It should be pointed 
out that some of the positions herein considered carry less responsi- 
bility than do the -compared positions in the Bureau of Fisheries, 
since the incumbents are charged merely with the direction of special 
investigations or particular laboratories. 

Comparison of salaries of corresponding grades in several departments and bureaus. 



Department and bureau. 


Positions compared. 


Number 
of posi- 
tions. 


Maxi- 
mum, 
salary. 


Average 
salary. 


Department of Agriculture: 

Bureau of Animal Industry 




10 
26 
9 
21 
4 
8 
4 
4 

24 
5 

9 
5 

4 


$4,500 
4,500 
3,750 
4,000 
3,750 
3,500 
3,250 
4,000 

4,500 
5,000 

4,800 
4,000 
2,700 


$3,452 




3,633 






3,328 


Bureau of Chemistry 


Chemist in charge laboratories... 

In charge of investigations 

Entomologist in charge 


3,202 




3,187 




3,281 


Bureau of Biological Survey 




2,937 


Chief of office 


3,755 


Department of the Interior: 




3,468 




Chief of division 


4,840 


Department of Commerce: 


Chemist or physicist 


3, 766 




Chief of division, engineer 

Assistant in charge or chief agent. 


3,140 


Bureau of Fisheries 


2,600 







From this table it appears that in 12 bureaus of 3 departments, 
excluding the Bureau of Fisheries, the average salary paid to chiefs 
of divisions or similar positions is $3,473, while in the Bureau of 
Fisheries it is $2,600. In considering 7 of these bureaus with which 
comparisons are practicable for 1907 and 1917, there develops the 
fact that, whereas in the Bureau of Fisheries there was in that period 
no increase in salaries in the positions in question, in each of the 
other 7 bureaus there was such an increase, which, for the maximum 
salaries obtainable, averaged 28 per cent. 

Field force, division offish culture. — Two field station superinten- 
dents at $2,200 each (increase of $400) ; 38 superintendents at $2,000 
each (increase of $500); 17 foremen at $1,500 each (increases of $540, 
$500, $420, and $300); 46 fish culturists at $1,200 each (increases of 
$240 and $300); 113 apprentice fish culturists at $900 each (increases 
of $300, $180, and $120), including 6 already receiving $900; 5 car 
captains at $1,500 (increase of $300); 6 car messengers at $1,200 each 
(increase of $200) ; 5 assistant car messengers at $1,000 each (increase 
of $100); 5 apprentice car messengers at $900 each (increase of $180); 
5 car cooks at $720 each (increase of $120); 9 machinists at $1,200 
each (increase of $240); 5 engineers at stations at $1,200 each (in- 
creases of $100, $120, and $200); 17 firemen at stations at $900 each 
(increases of $180 and $300); 1 laborer at $720 (increase of $120); 
2 coxswains at $900 each (increase of $180). 

This readjustment in the division of fish culture is imperatively 
demanded by the changed industrial and living conditions since the 
present salary scale was estabhshed upward of a quarter of a century 
ago and by the recent experience of the bureau in obtaining qualified 
men. For several years it has been most difficult to induce desirable 
persons to enter the service at the meager salaries offered, and the 



20 INCREASE IN STATTTTORY SALARIES. 

entire field personnel has become disorganized in .consequence. The 
situation is most serious as regards the lower grades, but an advance 
all along the line is necessary in order that the bureau may properly 
conduct its operations. 

On October 1, 1918, out of 95 positions of apprentice fish culturist, 
there were 60 that were either vacant or temporarily filled without 
regard to the civil service requirements, and the entire force in this 
and similar grades is constantly shifting. Local unskilled helpers 
temporarily employed to do the work for which some technical 
knowledge and skill are desirable have to be paid two or three times 
the wages of statutory employees. 

Local agent, Boston, Mass., $600 {increase of $300). — This increase 
is requested by the necessity of making no discrimination against 
the position of local agent at the country's most important fishing 
port and of paying him the same salary that is allowed other local 
agents. 

Chief messenger, $900 {increase of $180). — It is intended to reward 
by this small increase the faithful performance of duty by an employee 
who has been over 30 years in this service. He is on hand early 
and late, and ever willing, painstaking, industrious, and capable. 
The pay he receives is disproportionate to his service and is less than 
is given in other branches of the Government service. 

Lihrarian, $1,800 {increase of $300). — The library of the bureau 
contains the best collection of books on fish, fisheries, and related 
subjects in the world. It consists of over 30,000 books and periodi- 
cals in Washington and approximately 20,000 at the several labora- 
tories in the field. The salary of the librarian should be commensu- 
rate with the specialized knowledge and training required and with 
that paid in similar libraries of the Government. In the Coast 
Survey and the Bureau of Education the salary of the librarian is 
$1,800, and in the Bureau of Mines, Patent Office, and Bureau of 
Public Health Service, $2,000. 

. Glerl, Seattle office, $1,200 {increase of WO). —Withthe demand for 
comj)etent stenographers and typewriters in the Pacific coast cities, 
it is impossible for the bureau to fill this position at the salary now 
allowed. 

Two agents at Prihilof Islands, AlasTca, at $2,400 {in lieu of 2 agents 
and caretalcers at $2,000). — With the resumption of commercial seal- 
ing at the Pribilof Islands on a large scale, and with the greatly 
added responsibilities and duties imposed on the department's chief 
representatives as a result of an economical prosecution of the 
sealing industry, the position of "caretaker" becomes anomalous, 
and the salary attached to the position is not commensurate with its 
importance and responsibility and with the financial and other 
interests involved. The business of the Pribilof Islands yields an 
annual revenue to the Government that now amounts to more than 
a mifiion dollars and will rapidly increase during the next few years. 
The salaries now paid the agents are very much less than were provided 
by Congress while the Pribilof Islands were in an unproductive and 
generally unsatisfactory condition. The pay of agents now, amount- 
ing to $4,000 a year, is to be compared with their pay for many years 
prior to 1913, amounting to $8,760 a year. 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 21 

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE. 

The salaries of the two assistant chiefs of bureau should be increased 
S1,000 each, viz, the salary of the first assistant chief should be raised 
from $3,500 to $4,500, and the salary of the second assistant chief 
should be raised from $3,000 to $4,000. The work of these two 
administrative officials is of a high grade and by no means mechanical. 
The first assistant chief has supervision of the technical research and 
statistical divisions of the bureau and the second assistant chief 
directs the work of the foreign service and trade promotion divisions. 
Both of these officials have, since their tenure of office, had offers 
made to them at much higher salaries. The salaries as recommended 
are not in excess of salaries for similar responsible positions in Gov- 
ernment organizations in Washington, and are decidedly less than 
salaries paid by commercial organizations and business firms for 
work of a similar character. 

The salary of the chief clerk should be raised from $2,250 to $2,750 
per annum. When the present salary was established, July 1, 1890, 
it v/as for the chief clerk of the old Bureau of Statistics, which is now 
only a division in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 
The chief clerk is the ranking administrative officer, next to the 
director of the bureau and the two assistant directors, and he has a 
large measure of personal responsibility for the administrative work 
as well as being responsible for the purchase and supervision of sup- 
plies and equipment for the field oflices located both at home and 
abroad. Since July 1, 1890, the work of the bureau has been con- 
siderably expanded, all of which has meant increased burdens upon 
the chief clerk. This sum is not in excess of that paid by other large 
bureaus in Washington involving similar responsibilities. 

The present salary of the chief of the Research Division is $2,500, 
but it should not be less than that of the other division chiefs, who 
now receive $2,750, as his duties are comparable and his qualifications 
no less exacting. He directs the general foreign research of the 
bureau,, outside of the specialized far eastern and Latin American 
fields, using for this purpose the principal foreign journal, both official 
and commercial, foreign commercial magazines and newspapers, 
reports of other Governments, and similar material. 

It is felt that the chief of the Division of Trade Information should 
be promoted from $2,000 to $2,750, a salary equal to that of other 
division chiefs. He has charge of the bureau's correspondence of a 
commercial nature. Under him are trained correspondents and the 
major portion of the stenographic staff. The range of his knowledge 
is of necessity broad in its scope, involving both technical foreign 
trade questions as well as commercial problems. 

An increase of $500 is asked for the position of editorial assistant. 
The editorial assistant acts as assistant chief of the editorial division. 
This position requires editorial training and technical familiarity 
with printing methods, for he handles the bulk of the material which 
must be prepared for the printer. Present salary is $2,000. 

The two messenger boys employed in the bureau should have their 
salaries increased from $420 to $480 per annum, which is the lowest 
salary paid in most other Government departments for service of thi& 
kind. 

Yours, very truly, William C. Redfield, 

The Secretary of the Treasury. Secretary 



22 



INCREASE IN STATUTORt SALARIES. 
Summary. 



Present. 



Proposed 



Increase. 



Office of the Secretary: 

Assistant chief cleric and superintendent, in lieu of clerk class 4 . 

Chief di\'lsion of supplies 

Two assistant chiefs of division 

Deputy disbursing clerk 

Chief telephone operator 

Skilled laborer ;.. 

Do... 

Carpenter . 

Chief watchman 



Total. 



!?ureau of Lighthouses: 

Superintendent of naval construction. 

Assistant enctineer 

Marine draftsmen, additional salary. . 

Clerk :... 

Do 



Total. 



IJureau of Navigation: 

Deputy commissioner. . 

Chief clerk 

Shipping commissioner- 
Baltimore 

Philadel phia 

New Orleans 



Total. 



bureau of Standards: 

Chief phj'sicist., 

Chief chemist 

Three physicists and chemists. . . 

Secretary 

Chief mechanician 

Superintendent 

Chief clerk 

Photographer 

Foreman woodworking shop 

Glass blower — 

Foreman of janitors and laborers. 



Total. 



Jiureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: 
Assistant chief 

Do 

Chief clerk 

Chief of division — 

Do 

Editorial assistant 

2 messenger boys 



Total. 



Coast and Geodetic Survey: 

Chief, printing and sales 

16 aids in lieu of 19 

Bureau of Fisheries: 

Commissioner's office — 1 deputy commissioner 

Assistants in charge of divisions— 

1 fish culture — 

1 inquiry respecting food fishes 

1 fisheries industries 

1 Alaska service 

1 li brarian 

1 local agent, Boston, Mass 

1 chief messenger 

1 clerk, Seattle oflice 

Field service — 

Alaska service— 2 agents, Pribilof Islands (in lieu of agents and 

caretakers) • 

Employees at large — 

2 field station superintendents 

2 fish culturists ^ ^ - . . . 

Do 

6 machinists 

2 coxswains — 



$1,800 

2,100 

1,800 

1,800 

1,000 

840 

900 

900 



3,000 
2,000 



900 
900 



2,750 
2,000 

1,200 
2,400 
1.500 



4,800 
4,800 
3,600 
2,200 
1,800 
2,500 
2,200 
1,400 
1,500 
1,600 
900 



3,500 
3,000 
2,250 
2,500 
2,000 
2,000 
420 



$2, 250 
2, 500 
2,000 
2,100 
1,400 
1,000 
1,000 
1,000 
1,000 



4,000 
2,400 



1,600 
1,200 



3,000 
2,500 

1,500 
3,000 
2, 000 



5,500 
5,500 
4,500 
3,000 
3,000 
3,000 
2,500 
1, 600 
1,800 
1,800 
1,200 



4,500 
4,000 
2,750 
2,750 
2,750 
2,500 
480 



2,000 


2,400 


1,000 


1,100 


3,500 


4,000 


2,700 


3,500 


2,700 


3,500 


2,500 


3,500 


3,000 


3,500 


1,500 


1,800 


300 


600 


720 


900 


900 


1,200 


2,000 


2,400 


1,800 


2,200 


960 


1,200 


900 


1,200 


960 


1,200 


720 


900 



Net decrease, $1,000. 



INCREASE IN" STATUTORY SALARIES, 
Summary, — Continued . 



23 



Present. 



Proposed. 



Increase. 



Bureau of Fisheries — Continued. 
Field service— Continued. 

Distribution (car) employees— 

5 car captains 

6 car messengers 

5 assistant car messengers. . . 
5 apprentice car messengers. 

5 car cooks 

Station employees — 

38 superintendents 

14 foremen ^ 

1 foreman 

Do 

Do 

4 fish culturists 

38 fish culturists 

6 apprentice fish culturists. . 

I apprentice fish culturist. . . 

II apprentice fish culturists. 
95 apprentice fish culturists. 
1 engineer 

Do 

3 engineers 

3 machinists 

7 firemen 

10 firemen 

1 laborer 



Total. ..^ 

Grand total increase . 



SI ,'200 

1,000 

900 

720 

600 

1,500 

1,200 

1,080 

1,000 

960 

960 

900 

900 

780 

720 

600 

1,100 

1,080 

1,000 

960 

720 

600 

600 



$1,500 

1,200 

1,000 

900 

720 

2,000 

1,500 

1,500 

1, 500 

1,500 

1,200 

1,200 

900 

900 

900 

900 

1,200 

1,200 

1,200 

1,200 

900 

900 

720 



$1,500 

1,200 

500 

900 

600 

19,000 
4,200 
420 
500 
540 
960 

11,400 



120 

1,980 

28,500 

100 

120 

600 

720 

1,260 

3,000 

120 



87,400 
106,580 



Department of Commerce, 

Washington, November 13, 1918. 
Dear Sir: In view of the report of the Secretary of Labor, con- 
taining a comparison of salaries paid by private establishments and 
the Federal Government for mechanical and subclerical j^ositions, 
I have to request that you transmit to Congress for its consideration 
in connection with the estimates" for the Department of Commerce 
for the fiscal year 1 920 my recommendation that the salaries attached 
ta the following positions in the District of Columbia be increased 
as indicated: 

Carpenter $1, 680 

Pattern maker and carpenter , 1, 680 

Cabinetmaker 1, 800 

Engineer 1, 800 

Chief engineer and electrician 2, 000 

Assistant engineer 1, 560 

Electrician 1, 680 

Watchman 1,000 

Chief watchman 1, 200 

Elevator conductor 1, 000 

Fireman 1, 252 

Messenger 1, 000 

Assistant messenger 900 

Messenger boy 600 

Skilled laborer 1,600 

Laborer 1, 000 

Telephone operator 1, 000 

These increases are necessary to insure the retention of a sufficient 
force of trained employees to properly perform the duties of the 
positions enumerated. 

Yours, very truly, William C. Redfield, 

Secretary. 



24 



INOEEASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Department of Labor, 

Washington, November 5, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to recommend under the following-named 
appropriations to be made, for the Department of Labor for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, the following increases in statutory- 
salaries : 



Esti- 
mated 

salary. 



Proposed 
salary. 



Increased 
salary. 



OfBce of Sscretary of Labor: 

Assistant Sscretary 

Chief clerk ■. 

Private secretary to Secretary 

Confidential clerk to Secretary 

Private secretary to Assistant Secretary. 

Appointment clerk 

Bureau of I^abor Statistics: 

Commissioner 

Deputy commissioner 

Chief statistician 

Editor in chief 

Three statisticians 

Do 

Four employees 

Bureau of Immigration: 

Commissioner General 

Assistant Commissioner General 

Children's Bureau: 

Chief 

Assistant chief 

Private secretary to chief of bureau 

Bureau of Naturalization: 

Commissioner of naturalization 

Deputy commissioner of naturalization. . 



Total. 



$5,000 
3,000 
2,500 
1,800 
2,100 
2,100 

5,000 
3,000 
3,000 
3,000 
3, 000 
3,000 
2, 760 

5,000 
3,500 

5,000 
2,400 
1,500 

4,000 
3,250 



S7,500 
4,000 
2,750 
2,250 
2,400 
2,500 

6,000 

4,500 

4,500 

4,200 

1 3, 800 

1 3, 400 

13,000 

6,000 
4,500 

6,000 
3,500 
1,800 

6,000 
4,500 



$2, 500 
1,000 
250 
450 
300 
400 

1,000 
1,500 
1,500 
1,200 
2,400 
1,200 
960 

1,000 
1,000 

1,000 

1,100 

300 

2,000 
1,250 



22,310 



1 Each. 



It is also recommended that the entrance salary for all first-class 
clerks, stenographers, etc., be fixed at $1,200 per annum; that the 
entrance salary for minor clerical positions be fixed at $1,000 per 
annum, that the salary of engineer be increased from $1,100 to 
$1,800 per annum, that the salary of electrician be increased from 
$1,000 to $1,680 per annum, that the salary of skilled laborers be 
increased from $840 to from $1,000 to $1,600 per annum, that the 
salary of firemen be increased from $720 to $1,252 per annum, that 
the salary of messengers be increased from $840 to $1,000 per annum, 
that the salary of telephone operators be increased from $720 to 
$1,000 per annum, that the salary of elevator conductors be increased 
from $720 to $1,000 per annum, that the salary of watchmen be 
increased from $720 to $1,000 per annum, that the salary of assistant 
messengers be increased from $720 to $900 per annum, and that the 
salary of laborers be increased from $660 to $1,000 per annum. 

It is further recommended that because of war conditions, and 
the resulting higher cost of living, the per diem in lieu of subsist- 
ence allowance be raised from $4 to $6. 
Cordially, yours, 

W. B. Wilson, 

Secretary. 



INCBEASE IN" STATUTORY SALAEIES. 



25 



Office of the Attorney General, 

Washington, D. C, October 15, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following increases in 
statutory salaries under the appropriation to be made for "Salaries, 
Department of Justice, 1920," under the subdivisions "Office of the 
Attorney General" and "Division of Accounts": 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 
salary. 



Increase. 



Chief clerk 

Private secretary and assistant to Attorney General . 

Chief Division of Investigation 

One examiner 

Chief Division of Accounts , 

Chief bookkeeper and record clerk 

One accountant in lieu of clerk of class 3 



S3, 500 
3,000 
4,000 
2,500 
2,750 
2,200 
1,600 



Total. 



$4, 000 
4,000 
5,000 
3.000 
3, 500 
2,500 
2,000 



1,000 
1,000 
500 
750 
300 
400 



4,450 



I also transmit herewith the following recommendations sub- 
mitted by the various solicitors: 



• 


Present 
salary. 


Proposed 
salary. 


Increase. 


Solicitor of Internal Revenue 


S5, 000 


$7,500 


$2,500 




Solicitor for the Department of Labor: 


2,000 

3,600 

1,200 

840 


2,500 
4,500 
1,600 
1,000 


500 


Two law clerks at S2,250 in lieu of two at SI, 800 


900 


One clerk of class 3 in lieu of one of class 1 


400 


Messenger , 


160 






Total 






1,960 










Solicitor for the Department of Commerce: 


5,000 
3,000 
1,400 
1.400 
1,200 
840 


6,500 
4,000 
2,250 
2,000 
1,800 
1,000 


1,500 
1,000 


Assistant solicitor ; 


One law clerk at $2,250 in lieu of one clerk of class 2 


850 




600 


One clerk of class 4 in lieu of one of class 1 


600 


Messenger 


160 






Total .' 






4,710 











It is further recomm-ended that changes be made as follows from 
the salaries carried by the field appropriations specified: 





Present 
salary. 


1 


Inspection of prisons and prisoners— Assistant superintendent of prisons. . 


$2,500 


$3,000 $500 


United States Penitentiarv, Leavenworth, Kans.: 

3 captains of watch, from $1,000 to $1,200 each 


3,000 
21,000 


3,600 
24,000 


600 


25 guards, from $70 per month to $80 per month each 


3,000 






Total 






3,600 








United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Ga.: 

3 captains of watch, from $1,000 to $1,200 each 


3,000 
16, 800 


3,600 
19,200 


600 


20 guards, from $70 per month to $80 per month each 


2,400 






Total . . . 






3,000 











26 



INCREASE IN STATUTOEY SALABIES. 





Present 
salary. 


Propo.sed 
salary. 


Incre.i3ii. 


United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Wash.: 

Warden 


S2,000 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,000 
1,200 

21,000 


$2,500 
1,800 
1,800 
1,600 
1,500 
1,500 
1,500 

30,000 


$500 


Deputy warden 


600 


Chief clerk 


600 


Physician 


400 


Superintendent of boats 


300 


Steward and cook 


600 


Engineer and electrician 


300 


25 guards from $70 per month to $100 per month each 


9,000 






Total 






12 200 










National Training School for Boys, Washington, D. C: 

Parole officer 


900 
1 000 


1.000 

1 900 


100 




200 




480 firin 


120 




420 
600 
420 
300 
360 
216 


500 
720 
600 
400 
400 
240 


SO 


Engineer 


120 




180 




100 




40 


Housemaid 


24 






Total 






964 








33,884 








Respectfully, 

T. W. GHEGORY, 

Attorney General. 



Office of the Attorney General, 

Washington, D. C, November £5, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to submit, as a supplemental estimate for 
the fiscal year 1920 to be transmitted to Congress in the usual man- 
ner, the following recommendation as to all statutory employees of 
the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States : 

1. That the minimum salary of all general clerks, stenographers, 
and typists be fixed at $1,200 per annum. 

2. That the salaries of the following classes of employees be fijced 
as follows : 

Minor clerks, $1,000 per annum; chief messengers, $1,200 per annum; messengers, 
$1,000 per annum; assistant messengers, $900 .per annum; laborers, elevator con- 
ductors, and watchmen, $1,000 per annum; firemen, $1,252 per annum; packer, $1,100 
per annum; head charwoman, $600 per annum; charwomen, $300 per annum; tele- 
phone operators, $1,000 per annum; electrician, $1,680 per annum; engineers, $1,680 
per annum; assistant engineers, $1,560 per annum. 



Respectfully, 



W. Gregory, 

Attorney General. 



Office of the Postmaster General, 

Washington, D. C, October 14, 1918. 
Hon. William G. McAdoo, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 
My Dear Mr. McAdoo: Referring to your letter of the 9th instant, 
inviting attention to the desire of the President that no increases in 
statutory salaries be submitted in the annual estimates, but that 



INCREASE Il<r STATUTORY SALARIES. 27 

recommendations for such increases be embodied in a separate letter 
to the Secretary of the Treasm-y for transmission to the Congress, 
you are informed that, in conformity therewith, the estimates for 
the fiscal year 1920 have been prepared without increases in statutory 
salaries, and the following recommendations for increases are sub- 
mitted : 

OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. 

Appointment clerk at |2,250, in lieu of $2,000; assistant chief clerk at $2,500, in 
lieu of $2,000; two bookeepers and accountants at $2,000 each, in lieu of two clerks of 
class 4; chief clerk to chief inspector at $2,250, in lieu of $2,000; chief clerk to pur-, 
chasing agent at $2,250, in lieu of $2,000; assistant attorney at $2,500, in lieu of $2,000; 
clerk in charge at $2,000, in lieu of clerk, class 4; map mounter at $1,400, in lieu of 
$1,200; assistant map mounter at $1,200, in lieu of $1,000; blue printer at $1,200, in 
lieu of $900; assistant blue printer at $1,000, in lieu of 



OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. 

One clerk in charge at $2,000 in lieu of clerk of class 4, office of the Postmaster 
General. Division of Post Office Service: One clerk in charge at $2,250, in lieu of 
assistant superintendent at $2,000; chief clerk at $2,250_, in lieu of assistant superia- 
tendent at $2,000; five clerks in charge at $2,000 each, in lieu of five clerks, class 4, 
office of the Postmaster General; superintendent division of dead letters at $2,750, in 
lieu of $2,500. 

OFFICE OP THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. 

Division of Railway Mail Service: Chief clerk at $2,250, in lieu of $2,000; assistant 
eMef clerk at $2,000, in lieu of clerk, class 4, office of the Postmaster General; appoint- 
ment clerk at $2,000, in lieu of clerk of class 4, office of the Postmaster General. 

OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. 

Division of Stamps: Clerk in charge of audit section and clerk in charge of admin- 
istrative section at $2,000 each, in lieu of two clerks, class 4, office of the Postmaster 
General. Division of Registered Mails: Superintendent at $2,750, in lieu of $2,500; 
clerk in charge of indemnities at $2,000, in lieu of clerk, class 4, office of the Postmaster 
General. Division of Finance: Superintendent at $2,500, in lieu of $2,250. Divi- 
sion of Classification: Assistant superintendent at $2,000, in lieu of clerk, class 4, 
office of Postmaster General. 

OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. 

Division of Equipment and Supplies: Two clerks in charge at $2,000 each, in lieu 
of two clerks, class 4, office of the Postmaster General. Division of Rural Mails: Three 
clefks in charge at $2,000 each, in lieu of three clerks, class 4, office of the Postmaster 
General. 

These increases are necessary in order to provide adequate com- 
pensation for the character of service rendered by the employees con- 
cerned. The total annual rate of increase submitted is $8,110. 

No recommendation for increases in the salaries of employees in the 
engineer, electrical, mechanical, carpenter, fireman, watchman, eleva- 
tor conductor, laborer, and messenger forces for the fiscal year 1920 
are embraced in this statement, it being understood that the President 
will submit a special report on the subject of salaries for employees of 
those classes to Congress for its consideration. 
Yours, very truly, 

J. C, KooNS, 
Acting Postmaster General. 



28 increase in" statutory salaeies. 

Office of the Postmaster General, 

Washington, D. C, November 19, 1918. 
Hon. William G. McAdoo, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 
My Dear Mr. McAdoo: Referring to your letter of October 9, in- 
viting attention to tlie desire of the President that no increases in 
statutory salaries be SLibmitted in the annual estimates, but that 
recommendations for such increases be embodied in a separate letter 
to the Secretary of the Treasury, there is submitted herewith, for 
transmission to Congress, a supplemental estimate covering increases 
of salaries which it is recommended be made in the positions enumer- 
ated : 

61 messengers (in lieu of 29 messengers and 32 assistant messengers), each $1, 000 

34 watchmen, each 1, 000 

10 assistant engineers (in lieu of 9), each 1, 560 

15 firemen, each 1, 252 

20 elevator conductors, each 1, 000 

2 electricians (in lieu of 2 assistant electricians), each 1, 680 

3 carpenters, each 1, 680 

1 painter 1, 680 

2 plumbers (1 in lieu of 1 assistant plumber), each 1, 680 

78 laborers, each 1, 000 

The rates of compensation- enumerated above are in conformity 
with the recommendation of the Secretary of Labor made recently 
as a result of a study and comparison of salaries paid by private 
establishments and the Federal Government in the various positions 
set forth. 

The positions enumerated below are not covered by the recom- 
mendation of the Secretary of Labor, with the exception of two engi- 
neers. He recommended that engineers be paid the salary of $1,800 
per annum. However, the duties of the two engineers in this depart- 
ment are such that it is believed that the salary of $1,680 per annum 
will be adequate. 

1 typewriter repairer $1, 400 

3 telephone switchboard operators, each '. 1, 000 

2 messengers in charge of mails, each 1, 200 

1 captain of the watch 1, 400 

2 engineers, each 1, 680 

2 blacksmiths or steam fitters, each 1, 500 

3 oilers, each 1, 300 

1 chief engineer 1, 800 

3 assistant electricians, each 1, 400 

2 dynamo tenders, each 1, 300 

1 head carpenter (in lieu of 1 carpenter) 1, 800 

1 awning maker ' 1, 680 

1 foreman of laborers 1, 200 

1 assistant foreman of laborers 1, 100 

4 female laborers (in lieu of 4 laborers at $660), each 800 

12 female laborers (in lieu of 1 female laborer at $540, 3 female laborers at $500, 

and 8 female laborers at $480), each 600 

Increases in the salaries of the positions hereinbefore set forth are 
urgently necessary not only to enable the department to maintain an 
adequate force but to provide a just compensation to th« employees 
as well. 

Yours, very truly, 

A. S. Burleson, 
Postmaster General. 



INCKEASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



29 



Office of the Superintendent, 
■ State, War, and Navy Department Buildings, 

Washington, October 17, 1918. 

^Thjb Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith estimates for increases 
in salaries under the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy 
Department Buildings for the fiscal year of 1920, as follows: 



state, War, and Navy Department Buildlng:s 
5 assistant enrineers 

1 electrical machinist 

2 lieutenants of the guard 

70 guards 

1 carpenter 

1 machinist 

1 painter 

1 plumber 

3 dynamo tenders 

9 sVilled laborers 

1 foreman of laborers 

7 firemen 

9 firemen 

3 second-class firemen 

25 laborers 

4 forewomen of charwomen 

1 gardener 

Total 



State Department Annex, 1 laborer 

Navy Department Annex (New Yorlc Avenue, between Seventeenth and 
Eighteenth Streets): 
1 chief engineer 

6 firemen 

7 guards 

1 skilled laborer ormechanic 

4 laborers 

1 forewoman of charwomen 

Total 



Potomac Park buildiags: 

205 guards 

80 guards 

1 foreman of laborers 

6 laborers 

77 laborers 

8 forewomen of charwomen . 
Total 



1800 Virginia Avenue NW.: 

1 assistant engineer 

6 firemen 

4 coal passers ,. .. 

1 painter 

42 guards 

10 laborers 

2 forewomen of charwomen. 
Total 



Mall office buildings (buildings A, B, C, D, E, and F in Henry Park, 
Seaton Park, and Smithsonian Grounds): 

1 chief clerk 

4 assistant engineers 

2 carpenters 

2 electricians ; 

3 electricians 

3 switchboard operators 

2 plumbers 

1 steam fitter 

I machinist 

7 firemen 

II firemen 

3 lieutenants of the guard ^ 

6 sergeants of the guard 

237 guards 

155 guards 

1 foreman of laborers 

III laborers ' , 

10 forewomen of charwomen 

Total 



Grand total . 



Present 
salary. 



$1,200 

1,200 

840 

720 

1,000 

1,000 

1,000 

1,000 

900 



720 
720 
660 
660 
300 
720 



1,200 
720 
720 
840 
660 
30J3 



780 
720 
1,000 
660 
660 
300 



1,000 
840 
720 

1,000 
780 
660 
300 



1,800 

1,200 

1,000 

1,200 

1,000 

1,000 

1,200 

1,080 

1,200 

840 

720 

1,000 

840 

780 

720 

1,000 

660 

300 



Proposed 
salary. 



$1,400 

1,400 

960 

840 

1,200 

1,200 

1,200 

1,200 

1,200 

1,000 

1,000 

900 

900 

840 

720 

300 

1,000 



720 



1,400 
900 
840 

1,000 
720 
360 



840 
840 
,400 
840 
720 
360 



1,200 
900 
840 

1,200 
840 
720 
360 



2,000 

1,400 

1,200 

1,400 

1,200 

1,200 

1,400 

1,400 

1,400 

960 

900 

1,080 

930 

840 

840 

1,400 

720 

360 



Increase. 



$1,000 
200 
240 

8,400 
200 
200 
200 
200 
900 

1,440 
160 

1,680 

1,620 
540 

1,500 
240 
280 



19, 000 



60 



200 
1,080 
840 
160 
240 
60 



2,580 



12,300 

9,600 

400 

1,080 

4,620 

480 

'28,480 



200- 
360 
480 
200 
2,520 
600 
120 



4,' 



200 

800 

400 

400 

600 

600 

400 

320 

200 

840 

1,980 

240 

540 

14,220 

18, 600 

400 

6,660 

600 



48,000 



102, 600 



30 



INCKEASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Tlie increases requested above are submitted with the idea of 
securing salaries which will result in this office being able to obtain 
competent mechanics. Even the highest salaries authorized for 
mechanics in the new buildings in Potomac Park are below what 
such mechanics can now obtain in private employment. The 
salaries which are asked to be increased are lower than those pro- 
vided in the above-mentioned buildings. This results in the neces- 
sity of employing incompetent help and in a constant changing of 
the force which makes it almost impossible to operate the building 
efficiently. The responsibility attached to some of the positions^ 
such as assistant engineer, is such as to make it poor economy to 
employ other than the very highest class of workmen. The in- 
creases herewith submitted are in addition to any general percentage 
increase which Congress m.ay provide for all employees of the Gov- 
ernment. 

Respectfully submitted. 

C. S. Ridley, 
Colonel, United States Army, 

Superintendent. 



Office of the Public Printer, 

Washington, Octoher 29, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir : I have the honor to submit herewith a statement for presenta- 
tion to Congress of proposed increases in statutory salaries for the 
Government Printing Office and the office of the superintendent of 
documents, for the fiscal year 1920: 





Present 
salary. 


Proposed 
salary. 


Increase. 


Office of the Public Printer: 

2 clerks, eacli . . 


$1, 800 

1,600 

1,600 

1,400 

1,200 

1,000 

1,000 

900 

900 

840 


$2,000 
2,000 
1,800 
1,600 
1,400 
1,400 
1,200 
1,200 
1,000 
900 


$400 


1 clerk 


400 


4 clerks, each 


800 


2 cferks, each 


400 


3 clerks, each 


600 


Iclerk 


400 


12 clerks, each 


2 400 


4 clerks, each 


1 200 


6 clerks, each 


'eoo 


1 clerk 


60 






Total 






7,260 








Office of the Deputy Public Printer: 

Iclerk 


1,200 
1,200 


1,600 
1,400 


400' 


Do 


200 






Total 






600' 










Office of the superintendent of documents: 

1 clerk 


1,600 

1,800 

1,400 

1,600 

1,400 

1,200 

1,000 

1,200 

840 

900 

1,000 

840 


2,000 
2,000 
1,800 
1,800 
1,600 
1,600 
1,400 
1,400 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,000 


400 


Do 


200 


Do 


400 


2 clerks, each 


400 


4 clerks, each 


800 


3 clerks, each 


1 200 


10 clerks, each 


4 OOO 


5 clerks, each ; 


1,000 


13 clerks, each 


4 680 


10 clerks, each 


3,000 
200 


1 clerk 


11 clerks, each '. . . 


1,760 



INCREASE IN" STATUTORY SALARIES. 



31 





Present 
salary. 


Proposed 

salary. 


Increase. 


Office of the superintendent of documents— Continued . 


$1, 800 
1,500 
1,200 
1,500 
1,100 
1,000 
1,200 
900 
1,000 
1,600 
1,500 
1,600 
1,200 


m, 000 

1,800 
1,600 
1,600 
1,400 
1,400 
1,400 
1,200 
1,200 
1,800 
1,600 
2,000 
1,600 


$200 


Do 


300 


Do 


400 


Do . . 


100 


Do . 


300 




■ 1,600 




600 




1,200 


Do ' 


800 




200 




100 




400 




400 






Total . . . . 






24,640 










Recapitulation: 






7,260 


Office of the Deputy Public Printer 






600 








24, 640 
















32,500 











In presenting increases enumerated herewith, I am not only con- 
sidering the fact that a dollar of 1914 is but 54 cents to-day, but the 
fact that a large number of employees of the Government Printing 
Office have been solicited by other departments and bureaus as ■well 
as commercial institutions, and offers made, which have been hard 
for them to resist, and they have only done so upon the assurance 
that the Public Printer would meet the situation, as he should, by 
recommending financial consideration of a fair and equitable charac- 
ter. Unless this is done, the office will undoubtedly lose the services 
of many trained and experienced clerks whose places it would be 
exceedingly difficult to fill. 

There has been an enormous increase in the work of the office along 
clerical lines, especially since the beginning of the war; this increase 
has been far in excess of any increase in the number of employees 
engaged on that work. The work in this office is complicated, re- 
quiring judgment, initiative, and a knowledge of detail regarding 
printing and binding. The situation is becoming a very serious one, 
owing to the low salaries in effect; these salaries were fixed by Con- 
gress, in most cases years ago, and, can not be changed without con- 
gressional action. 

Respectfully, 

Cornelius Ford, 

Public Printer. 



Library of Congress, 
Washington, November 8, 1918. 
Sir: In your communication of October 9, 1918, you invited atten- 
tion to the desire of the President that no increases in statutorys 
salaries should be submitted in the annual estimates, but that 
recommendations for such increases might be embodied in a separate 
letter addressed to you for transmission to the Congress for its con- 
sideration. 



32 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

I have the honor, therefore, to submit the following list of positions 
in the Librar;^ proper, the Copyright Office, and the Card Division 
for which an increase in salary is earnestly recommended: 



" All positions (42) at $420-$580 (inclusive) to be increased to. 

All positions (30) at $600 and $720 to be increased to '780 

All positions (74) at $780-$860 (inclusive) to be increased to 900 

All positions (7) at $900 and $920 to be increased to 1, 000 

Certain positions (45) at $960 to be increased to 1, 000 

Certain positions (14) at $960 (Catalogue Division) to be increased to 1, 200 

All positions (32) at $1,000-$1,100 (inclusive) to be increased to 1, 200 

All positions (41) at $1,200 to be increased to 1, 400 

All positions (19) at $1,400 to be increased to 1, 500 

Certain positions (11) at $1,500 to be increased to 1, 600 

Certain positions (14) at $1,500 to be increased to 1, 800 

All positions (10) at $1,600 to be increased to 1, 800 

Certain positions (11) at 1,800 to be increased to 2, 000 

Certain positions (4) at $2,000 to be increased to 2, 200 

Certain positions (3) at $2,000 to be increased to 2, 500 

A total increase of $50,600. 

A statement giving in detail the increases recommended accom- 
panies this communication. 

The Library is facing a serious situation. Since January, 1917, 
it has lost heavily by resignation; and it has been found almost 
impossible to secure, or having secured, to hold, at the existing 
salaries, persons who possess the proper qualifications for the work 
to be done. 

In lower grades, appointees continue for only a few weeks and 
then leave to take positions elsewhere at greatly increased compensa- 
tion. ' 

For example, there are 86 positions in the present staff, at $660 
and less, including 16 under lump-sum appropriations. Thirteen of 
these positions are vacant (Nov. 4, 1918) and 5 (3 in the Card Division) 
are filled by assistants who had entered the service by January, 1917. 
To fill the remaining 73 positions has taken 300 appointments in the 
22 months. 

There are 197 positions at salaries of $720 to $1,100, both inclusive, 
16 of them under lump-sum appropriations. Five are vacant and 
107 are filled by assistants who had entered the service bv January, 
1917. 

To fill the remaining 84 positions has taken 103 appointments, 
and there have had to be many promotions of assistants whose quali- 
fications are meager. 

These positions, at $1,100 and less (277), constitute 66 per cent of 
the entire staff (419). 

In the 22 months, there have been 428 resignations, exclusive of 
the terminations of temporary engagements, and the force to-day 
numbers only 400. 

And the character of the personnel has changed greatly. 

In January, 1917, there were 245 men and 179 women in the staff. 
In November, 1918, there are 184 men and 216 women and 19 
vacancies. 

Of the 139 assistants m 1917 who had entered the service at $660 
and less, 109 had had a high-school education and 28 had attended 
college. 

Of the 72 members of the present staff, at $660 and less, 35 (9 
of them colored) have attended high school and 3 have attended 
college. 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 33 

Of the 93 assistants in January, 1917, who had entered the service 
at $720-$l,100, 50 had had a college education. 

Of the 73 members of the present staff, at the same salaries, who 
have entered the service since January, 1917, 10 have had a college 
education. 

The increases recommended are to the next higher salaries, except 
as noted below. 

Fourteen positions, at $960, in the Catalogue Division are recom- 
mended for increase to $1,200. The work in this division is of a 
highly technical character. Of the 14 assistants, at $960, 7 have had 
a college education (2, Wellesley; 1, Vassar; 1, Cornell; 1, University 
of Chicago, with honors; 1, University of "Nebraska, and 1, University 
of Texas) ; and 10 have been in the service for more than five years, 
five for id years or over, and 1 for 15 years. 

Of the 103 assistants, at $1,200-$1,600, 60 have had a college edu- 
cation (4, Johns Hopkins; 3 each, Wellesley and Cornell; 2 each, 
Harvard, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, University of Michigan, Bowdoin; 
1 each, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, University of "Wisconsin, 
University of California, Colgate, Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Uni- 
versity^ of Toronto, University of Alabama, William and Mary, 
University of Wyoming, and Boston University; 7 received their 
education at foreign universities or gymnasiums and the others at 
the smaller American colleges. 

Seventy-one of the 103 have been in the service for 10 years or more* 
56 for 15 years or more; 33 for 18 years of more; and 19 for 20 years 
or more, 1 of them for 47 years, and another for 30 years. 

Fifteen positions, at $1,500, are recommended for increase to $1,800. 
These are assistants m charge of small divisions, or else chief assistants 
who administer divisions whenever the chiefs are absent either 
physically or when engaged upon important work that requires 
undivided attention. 

Of these 14 assistants, 2 only have been in the service for less than 
12 years. The training and experience of these two are as follows: 

GREEN, MARTHA FLORENCE. 

University of Chicago, School of Commerce and Administration, 
Ph. B. 

Secretary to dean of School of Commerce and Administration; 
assistant to the examiner. University of Chicago. 

Specialized in economics, sociology, and political science. 

Stenographer and typist. 

Languages: French, German. 

Present position: Chief assistant, Documents Division. 

SCHAPIRO, ISRAEL. 

Talmudical School, High School, Russia. 

University of Berlin. 

University of Strassburg, Ph. D. 

Professor of Talmud, Hebrew literature and history at the Jewish 
Teachers' Seminary of Jerusalem. 

Languages: Semitic languages, Russian, German, French, and 
Yiddish. 

H. Doc. 1365, 65-3—3 



34 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

Present position: Chief assistant, Semitic Division. 

Of the other 12,' 6 have been in the service for 20 years, 1 for 18 
years, 2 for 17 years, 1 for 15 years, 1 for 13 years, and 1 for 12 years. 

One of these recommended for the increase is Mr. Lawrence Wash- 
ington, in charge of the House reading room. 

The expressions used m the discussion concerning Mr. Washington, 
in the House last spring, confirmed my impression that the service 
rendered by him to Members of the House was to their entire satis- 
faction. I have recommended that the salary attached to his posi- 
tion shall be increased to the same extent as the salaries of the other 
assistants in charge and of the chief assistants; but his service is of 
such a personal character, it may be that Congress will care to pro- 
vide a higher compensation while he continues in charge of the room. 
Such action would be welcomed by me. 

Of the 8 positions at $1,600 recommended for increase to $1,800, and 
of the 11 at $1,800 recommended for increase to $2,000, 11 (7 at 
$1,600 and 4 at $1,800) are in the Copyright Office. Of these, certain 
are chiefs of division. The others perform clerical work of a very 
high grade. 

Of the members of the staff in the library proper at $1,800, one is 
the secretary of the library, from whose office issues the extensive 
correspondence of the library in response to requests for informa- 
tion and in connection with administration; and two are the chief 
assistants in the reading room, Mr. John G. Morrison and Mr. Hugh A. 
Morrison, who have served 36 years and 28 years, respectively, with 
the library. The character of their service is well known to members 
of the committee. 

I note the training and experience of the four assistants at $1,800 
in the Catalogue Division: 

Gilkey, Malina A.: Wellesley College, 1876-1878, 1881-82. Cata- 
logue department, Boston Public Library, 1889, In charge classifi- 
cation, Boston Athenaeum, 1891-1893. Cataloguer and classifier, 
St. Louis Mercantile Library, 1893-1895. In charge Washington 
City Free Library, 1895-1898. Languages: French, German; cata- 
loguing knowledge of Greek, Latin, Italian, and Spanish. Present 
position: vSupervisor, Catalogue Division. 

Koenig, Walther F.: University of Leipzig, Germany, 1880-1883. 
University of Pennsylvania, 1890-91, Ph. D. Assistant to librarian, 
University of Pennsylvania, 1 890-1 900 . Languages : German, French, 
Latin, Greek; good working knowledge of Italian, Spanish, Portu- 
guese, Dutch; reading knowledge of modern Greek; cataloguing 
knowledge of Danish, Swedish, Norwegian; slight knowledge of Rus- 
sian, Polish, Bohemian, Serbo-Croatian, Roumanian. Present posi- 
tion: Reviser and classifier. Catalogue Division. 

Schmidt, Alfred F. W.: Mount Angel College, Oregon, A. B.; A. M. 
Stanford University, A. B. Cataloguer, classifier, and instructor, 
Stanford University. Professor of German and librarian, George 
Washington University. Languages: German; reading knowledge 
of Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Old High German, Old Saxon, Middle 
High German, Gothic, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English; 
slight knowledge of Sanskrit, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, and Danish. 
Present position: Chief assistant classifier. Classification Division. 

Waters, Willard O. : Benzonia (Mich.) Academy and College, A. B. 
University of Illinois, Library School, B. L. S. Library of University 



INCEEASE IN STATUTOET SALARIES. 35 

of Illinois. Languages: Latin, Greek, German; raading knowledge 
of French and Spanish. Present position: Revising cataloguer in 
charge of American History, Catalogue Division. 

Increases are recommended for three chiefs of division in the 
Library proper. These, from $2,000 to $2,500 each, will still leave a 
discrepancy as between the three divisions (Classification, Periodical, 
and Prints), and the others in the library proper where the standard 
salary for the chief is $3,000. The present discrepancy is extremely 
unjust and unwarranted by the difference in the qualifications re- 
quired and the responsibility attached. The requirements them- 
selves are suggested by the training and experience of the present 
incumbents, as follows: 

Classifications — Perley, Clarence W. : Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, 1884-1887 and 1894-1896, B. S., 1896 (biology). As- 
sistant, department of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology, 1897-98. Amherst Library School, 1898. Assistant in 
charge engineering library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
1898-1900. Classifier, John Crerar Library, Chicago, 1900-1902. 
Classifier, Library of Congress, 1902-3. Classifier, John Crerar Library, 
1903-1905. Languages : German, French ; working knowledge of Ital- 
ian, Spanish, Latin; cataloguing knowledge of Dutch, Portuguese, 
Hungarian, Roumanian, and Scandinavian. Present position: Chief 
classifier. 

Periodicals. — Slade, "William Adams: Brown University, Ph. B. 
Librarian, National Monetary Commission. Librarian, Finance Com- 
mittee, United States Senate. Languages: Reading knowledge of 
French; working knowledge of German, Spanish, and Italian. Present 
position: Chief, Periodical Division. 

Prints. — Rice, Richard A.: Yale University, B. A. Yale Divinity 
School. LTniversity of Berlin and other foreign universities and 
technical schools. Williams College, M. A. University of Vermont: 
Professor of modern languages and literatures and of history, 1875- 
1881. Williams College: Professor of modern languages and litera- 
tures, 1881-1890; of history, 1890-1904; of history of art and 
civilization, 1904-1911. Languages: French, German, Italian. Pre- 
sent position: Chief of Prints- Division. 

Four chiefs of division (including the chief clerk) in the Copyright 
Office, at $2,000, are recommended for increase to $2,200. 

In submitting these recommendations, may I point out that a 
provision permitting the library staff to share in a fixed general 
increase for all Government employees, such as was granted last 
year, greatly as it would be appreciated for the individuals affected, 
would not relieve the present embarrassment. 

The salaries paid a large part of the library staff to-day are not 
living salaries; and until they ec[ual those paid elsewhere, especially 
until they shall be d(]ualized with those paid in other Government 
establishments, the library will find itself seriously crippled at the 
very times, as at present, when it is called upon to render service of 
a character that requires the highest efficiency. 

Respectfully submitted. 

Herbert Putnam, 

Librarian. 

The Secretary of the Treasury. 



86 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Present 


Proposed 


salary. 


salary. 


SI, 800 


$2, 000 


1,200 


1,400 


1,000 


1,200 


1,200 


1,400 


900 


1,000 


840 


900 


600 


780 


420 


600 


600 


780 


1,600 


1,800 


1,200, 


1,400 


960 


1,000 


780 


900 


000 


780 


420 


600 


1,500 


1,800 


1,200 


1,400 


960 


1,000 


840 


900 


600 


780 


580 


600 


420 


600 


2,000 


2,500 


1,800 


-.,2,000 


1,300 


1,600 


1,400 


1,500 


1,200 


1,400 


1,000 


1,200 


960 


1,200 


920 


1,000 


840 


900 


600 


780 


540 


600' 


420 


600 


1,500 


1,800 


960 


1,000 


420 


600 


1,500 


1,800 


960 


1,000 


840 


900 


960 


1,000 


420 


600 


1,800 


2,000 


1,200 


1,400 


1,000 


1,200 


1,080 


1,200 


960 


1,000 


900 


1,000 


840 


900 


600 


780 


960 


1,000 


960 


1,000 


960 


1,000 


840 


900 


780 


900 


540 


600 


720 


780 


420 


600 


780 


900 


2,000 


2,500 


1,500 


1,800 


960 


1,000 


840 


900 


960 


1,000 


420 


600 


1,500 


1,800 


840 


900 


960 


1,000 


420 


600 


1,500 


1,800 


960 


1,000 


420 


600 


1,500 


1,800 


960 


1,000 


840 


900 


420 


600 



Increase. 



General administration: 

Librarian's secretary 

1 clerk 

2 clerks, at Sl.OOO each 

1 clerk, stenographer and typewriter 

Do 

1 messenger 

1 messenger to chief assistant librarian .^ 

1 j unior messenger ' 

Operator of photographic copying machine 

Mail and delivery: 

1 assistant in charge 

Assistant chief 

1 assistant 

Do 

Do 

1 junior messenger ■. 

Order and ac?ession: 

1 assistant 

Do 

3 assistants, at S960 each ■ 

2 assistants, at S840 each •. 

2 assistants, at S600 each 

1 assistant 

2 junior messengers, at S420 each 

Catalogue, classification, and shelf: 

Chief classifier 

4 assistants, at $1,800 each 

7 assistants, at SI ,500 each 

6 assistants, at ,$1,400 each 

12 assistants, at Sl,200 each 

6 assistants, at SI, 000 each 

14 assistants, at $960 each 

4 assistants, at $920 each 

13 assistants, at $840 each 

13 assistants, at S600 each 

4 assistants, at $540 each •. 

6 junior messengers, at S420 each 

Binding: 

1 assistant in charge 

1 assistant, at 1 

1 junior messenger 

Bibliography: 

1 assistant 

2 assistants, at $960 each 

1 assistant 

1 stenographer and typewriter 

1 junior messenger 

Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: 

2 assistants, at $1,800 each 

7 assistants, at $1,200 each (including room for the blind) 

3 assistants, at $1,000 each 

2 assistants at charging desk, at $1,080 each 

5 assistants.a,t $960 each (including 1 for Toner Library and 1 for Wash 
ington Library) 

1 assistant in room for the blind i 

27 assistants, at $840 each 

6 assistants, at $600 each 

1 stenographer and typewriter 

1 attendant. Senate reading room 

1 attendant. Representatives' reading room 

Do 

2 attendants in cloakroom, at $780 each 

2 attendants for gallery and alcoves, at $540 each 

Telephone operator , 

4 junior messengers, at $420 each , 

2 watchmen, at $780 each 

Periodical (including evening service): 

Chief of division 

Assistant chief '..'.'.. 

2 assistants, at $960 each '..'....'.'.. 

5 assistants, at $840 each , 

Stenographer and tjrpewriter 

2 junior messengers, at $420 each , 

Documents: 

1 assistant 

Do !!!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!;! 

stenographer and typewriter , 

1 junior messenger , 

Manuscript: 

Assistant chief , 

1 assistant '....'..'.'.'.'.'.'.. 

1 junior messenger ] . ] 

Maps and charts: 

1 assistant 

2 assistants, at $960 each ]"\\\\\\[[" "[["[[["[ 

1 assistant ] '..'.'.'..'.'. 

1 junior messenger '.'.'.'.'. 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



37 



Music: 

1 assistant 

Do 

2 assistants, at S840 each 

1 junior messenger 

Prints: 

Chief of division 

1 assistant 

2 assistants, at S960 each ^ 

1 junior messenger 

Smithsonian deposit : 

Custodian 

1 assistant 

Do 

1 junior messenger 

Congressional Reference Library: 

Custodian 

1 assistant , 

Do 

Do 

2 junior messengers, at S420 each. 
Law Library: 

2 assistants, at $1,400 each 

1 assistant 

Do 

1 assistant (evening service) 

1 assistant 

Semitic and Oriental Literature: 

1 assistant 

Do 

1 junior messenger 

Copyright OflBce: 

4 clerks, at ,«j2,000 each 

4 clerks, at Sl,800 each ' 

7 clerks, at Sl,600 each 

1 clerk, at 81,500 

8 clerks, at Sl,400 each 

10 clerks, at 81,200 each 

10 clerks, at $1,000 each 

18 clerks, at $960 each 

2 clerks, at $860 each 

10 clerks, at $780 each 

4 clerks, at $600 each 

2 clerks, at $480 each 

4 junior messengers, at $420 each. 
Arrears, special service — 

3 clerks, at $1,200 each 

1 porter 

1 jimior messenger 

Distribution of card indexes: 

2 assistants, at $1,600 each 

1 assistant 

2 assistants, at $1,500 each 

3 assistants, at $1,400 each 

4 assistants, at 81,200 each 

4 assistants, at $1,100 each 

4 assistants, at $1,000 each 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 

salary. 



,500 
000 
840 
420 

,000 
,500 
960 
420 

,500 
,500 
840 
420 

,500 
,200 
960 
840 
420 

,400 
960 
600 

,500 
540 

,500 
900 
420 

,000 
,800 
,600 
,500 
,400 
,200 
,000 
960 
860 
780 
600 
480 
420 

,200 
780 
420 

600 
500 
500 
400 
200 
100 
000 



1,200 
900 
600 

2,500 

1,800 

1,000 

600 

1,800 

1,800 

900 

600 

1,800 

1,400 

1,000 

900 

600 

1,500 
1,000 

780 
1,600 

600 

1,800 

1,000 

600 

2,200 

2,000 

1,800 

1,600 

1,500 

1,400 

1,200 

1,000 

900 

900 

780 

600 

600 

1,400 
900 
600 

1,800 
1,800 
1,600 
1,500 
1,400 
1,200 
1,200 



Increase. 



200 
120 
180 

50O 

300 

80 

180 

300 

300 

60 

180 

300 
200 
. 40 
60 
360 

200 
40 
180 
100 
60 

300 
100 
180 

800 
800 

1,400 
100 
800 

2,000 

2,000 
720 
,80 

1,200 
720 
240 
720 

600 
120 
180 

400 
300 
200 
300 
800 
400 
800 



Building and Grounds, Library of Congress, 

Office of the Superintendent, 
Washington, D. C.,.Octoler 31, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir: In accordance with your circular letter of October 9, 1918, 
in connection with the annual estimates for the fiscal year 1920, I 
have the honor to submit herewith recommendations for certain 
increases in statutory salaries in this office, together with a few changes 
in designations in the mechanical section. 

The increases are asked as base salaries irrespective of probable 
general temporary increases due to present abnormal conditions. 
Together with such temporary general increase as likely to be con- 
tinued another year, the proposed scale of salaries is none too high 
to maintain an efficient organization here during the next fiscal year. 



38 



INOEEASE IN" STATUTOEY SALAEIES. 



It is also believed to be the minimum scale at which properly qualified 
employees can be obtained or retained in normal times hereafter. 

The scale proposed in every detail is not greater than at present 
obtaining for similar services in most of the executive departments 
and is still lower than some. 

In the mechanical positions the salaries thus far paid, even with 
the temporary increase provided, are stiU so far below the scale 
obtaining outside the Government service that the supposed more 
favorable working conditions in the Government service do not have 
the same force as formerly. 

The proposed scale would furthermore serve to advance some most 
deserving employees who have remained here solely through loyalty. 

The few changes in designation noted are recommended because 
the present designations in these cases do not at aU indicate the 
special duties and the qualifications required. With these changes 
in designation it is hoped that at least some applications of properly 
qualified men for appointment may be received. For a long time no 
such applications have been filed, and it is now practically impossible 
to fill vacancies with qualified employees in these particular positions. 
Respectfully, 

F. L. AVEEILL, 

Superintendent Library Building and Grounds. 



Table showing present statutory designations and compensation and recommended reclassi- 
fications and salary increases for Building and Grounds, Library of Congress. 

CARE AND MAINTENANCE (SALARIES)— Continued. 



"7 
■Estimate submitted for fiscal year 1^20. 



Designation. 



Rate per 
annum. 



Amount 
required. 



Recommended designations and salaries 
for fiscal vear 1920. 



Designation. 



Rate per i Amount 
annum. ' required. 



Remarks. 



Superintendent 

1 clerk , 

Do , 

Do , 

Do , 

1 property clerk 

1 messenger 

1 assistant messen 
ger. 

2 telephone switch 
board operators. 

1 chief engineer 

1 assistant engineer. 
1 electrician 



3 assistant engineers. 



1 machinist 

Do 

2 carp enters 

1 plumber 

1 painter 

3 elevator conduc 
tors. 



$3,600.00 

2,000.00 
1,600.00 

.',400.00 

1,000.00 

900.00 

840. 00 
720. 00 

'/20. 00 

1,500.00 

1,200.00 
1,500.00 



900. 00 



1,000.00 
900. 00 

900. 00 

900. 00 

900. 00 
720. 00 



$3, 600. 00 

2, 000. 00 
1,600.00 

1,400.00 

1,000.00 

900.00 

840.00 
720.00 

1,440.00 

1,500.00 

1,200.00 
1,500.00 



2,700.00 



1,000.00 
900.00 

1,800.00 

900.00 

900. 00 
2, 160. 00 



Superintendent . . 



1 clerk . 
do. 



S4,000.00 $4,000.00 



do ■ 

....do 

1 property clerk.. 



1 messenger 

1 assistant messen- 

ger. 

2 telephone switch- 

board operators. 
1 chief engineer 



lassistant engineer 
1 electrician 



1 assistant engineer 

2 dynamo opera- 
tors. 



1 machinist 

....do 

1 carpenter 

-...do 

1 plumber 

1 painter 

3 elevator conduc 
tors. 



2,400.00 
1,800.00 

1,600.00 
1,200.00 
1,000.00 

840. 00 
720. 00 

720. 00 

1,800.00 

1,. 500. 00 
1,600.00 

1,200.00 

1,200.00 



1,200.00 

1,100.00 
1,200.00 

1,000.00 

1,200.00 

1,200.00 
780. 00 



2, 400. 00 
1,800.00 

1,600.00 
1,200.00 
1,000.00 

840. 00 
720. 00 

1,440.00 

1,800.00 

1,500.00 
1,600.00 

1,200.00 

2, 400. 00 



1,200.00 

1,100.00 
1,200.00 

1,000.00 

1,200.00 

1,200.00 
2, 340. 00 



Increase of S400 sub- 
mitted. 
Do. 
Increase of S200 sub- 
mitted. 
Do. 
Do. 
Increase of SlOO sub- 
mitted. 
No change. 
Do. 

Do. 

Increase of $300 sub- 
mitted. 
Do. 

Increase of SSIOO sub- 
mitted, 

Increase of $300 sub- 
mitted. 

In lieu of 2 assistant 
engineers, and in- 
crease of 8300 each 
submitted. 

Increase of $200 sub- 
mitted. 
Do. 

Increase of $300 sub- 
mitted. 

Increase of $100 sub- 
mitted. 

Increase of $300 sub- 
mitted. 
Do. 

Increase of $60 each 
submitted. 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



39 



Table showing present statutory designations and compensation and recommended reclassi- 
fications and salary increases for Building and Grounds, Library of Congress— Con. 

CARE AND MAINTENANCE (SALARIES)— Continued. 



Estimate submitted for fiscal year 1920. 


Recommended designations and salaries 
for fiscal year 1920. 






1 




Remarks. 


Designation. 


Rate per 
annum. 


Amoimt 
required. 


Designation. 


Rate per 
annum. 


Amoimt 
required. 










2 assistant dyna- 


$900.00 


81,800.00 


In lieu of 2 skilled 








mo operators. 






laborers, and in- 
crease of $180 each 
submitted. 


10 skilled laborers . . . 


720.00 


7,200.00 


'2 electrician's 
1 helpers. 


900. 00 


1,800.00 


Do. 


* 






i 6 skilled laborers . . 

[ 


780.00 


4, 680. 00 


Increase of $60 each 
submitted. 








fl assistant electri- 


1,200.00 


1,200.00 


In lieu of 1 wireman. 








cian. 






and increase of $300 




900.00 


1,800.00 




1,200.00 


1,200.00 


submitted. 




Increase of $300 sub- 






mitted. 


1 captain of watch. . . 


1,400.00 


1,400.00 


1 captain of watch . 


1,400.00 


1,400.00 


No change. 


lieutenant of watch 


1,200.00 


1,200.00 


1 lieutenant of 


1,200.00 


1,200.00 


New position. 


(submitted). 






watch (submit- 
ted). 
1 lieutenant of 








1 lieutenant of 


1,000.00 


1,000.00 


1,000.00 


1,000.00 


No change. 


watch. 






watch. 








19 watchmen 


900.00 


17,100.00 


19 watchmen 


900.00 


17, 100. 00 


Do. 


2 attendants, ladies' 


480.00 


960. 00 


2 attendants, la- 


540.00 


1,080.00 


Increase of $60 each 


room. 






dies' room. 






submitted. 


4 check boys 


360.00 


1,440.00 


4 check boys 


420.00 


1,680.00 


Do. 


1 mistress of char- 


425.00 


425. 00 


1 mistress of char- 


480.00 


480. 00 


Increase of $55 sub- 


women. 






women. 






mitted. 


1 assistant mistress 


300.00 


300. 00 


1 assistant mistress 


360. 00 


360.00 


Increase of $60 sub- 


of charwomen. 






of chaiTvomen. 






mitted. 


58 charwomen 


240.00 


13,920.00 


58 charwomen 


300.00 


17, 400. 00 


Increase of $60 each 
■ submitted. 
Increase of $300 sub- 


1 foreman of la- 


900.00 


900.00 


1 foreman of la- 


1,200.00 


1,200.00 


borers. 






borers. 






mitted. 


16 laborers 


660.00 


10,560.00 


16 laborers 

Total number of 
employees, 142. 


660.00 


10,560.00 


No change. 










86, 265. 00 




96,880.00 


Total amount of in- 


employees, 142. 






creases recom- 














mended, $10,615.00 



Office of Superintendent, U, S. Botanic Garden, 

WasJiington, October 12, 1918. 

The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir*: I have the honor to submit herewith certain recommendations 
for increases in salaries for the statutory employees of the Botanic 
Garden for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, as follows: 





Present 
salary. 


-Increase. 




Present 
salary. 


Increase. 




$2, 250 
1,300 
1,000 
1,080 
1,020 

960 


$750 
500 
600 
520 
480 

540 


4 gardeners , each 


$900 
780 
720 
900 

1,170 


$600 


Assistant superintendent 

Clerk . 




720 


2 shipping clerks, each 

2 clerks, each 


480 




300 




Carpenter 


430 


Gardener in charge of green- 


Total increases 






8,500 











There are several good reasons why these increases should be 
allowed. These' employees have been in the service for periods 
ranging from 4 to 25 years or more, during which time they have 
received but one or two minor increases. They are all trusted and 
experienced men in their particular lines, and it would be impossible 
to replace them, especially at this time. When you compare the 



40 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



pay of the above men with that of the average laborer it will be seen 
that they now receive very little more. We are now paying $2.40 
per diem for skilled laborers and laborers. This is an increase of 
40 cents per day allowed by the legislative act of July 3, 1918. We 
have estimated for $3 per day for the skilled laborers and laborers 
for the fiscal year 1920. If the statutory increases asked for are not 
granted, the pay of the skilled laborers and laborers will be in excess 
of the more important employees listed above. 
Very respectfully yours, 

Geo. W. Hess, 

Superintendent. 

U. S. Civil Service Commission, 
Washington, D. C, October 14, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir : The commission has the honor to inclose, for transmission to 
Congress, its annual estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1920. In accordance with your letter of October 9, 1918, these 
estimates include only increases in the statutory force and in lump- 
sum appropriations, other increases on existing positions being em- 
bodied in this letter, as f oUows : 



No. 



Designation. 



Proposed 
salary. 



Unit in- 
crease. 



Total in- 
crease. 



OFFICE FOECE. 



Commissioners 

Chief examiner 

Secretary 

Assistant chief examiner 

Chief of division 

Clerks, each, in lieu of 34 at $1,000 each.. 
Minor clerks, each, in lieu of 22 clerks at 1 

Messenger 

Assistant messenger 

Skilled laborer 

Te,lephone-switchboard operator 

Custodian force: 

Engineer 

General mechanic 

Firemen : 

Watchmen 

Elevator conductors 

Laborers 



OfTice force, increase on existing positions . 

FIELD FORCE. 

District secretaries 



.do. 



Clerks, each, in lieu of 7 at $1,000 each. 
Minor clerks, each, in lieu of— 

6, at $900 each 

5, at $840 each 



$7, 500 

4,000 

3,500 

2, 500 

2,400 

1,200 

1,000 

900 

900 

900 

900 

900 
900 
900 
900 
900 
900 



(1) $3,000 

(2) 3,500 

500 

1,000 

250 

400 

(34) 200 

(22) 100 

60 

180 

180 

180 

60 
60 
180 
180 
180 
240 



$10,000 

500 
1,000 

250 

400 

6,800 

2,200 

60 

180. 

180 

isa 

60 

60 

360 

■ 360 

360 

720 



3,000 



2,800 
1,200 



1,000 



(2) 600 
(1) 800 

(1)4,000 

(3) 800 
(5) 1, 000 

(7) 200 

(6) 100 
(5) 160 



Field force, increase on existing positions. 



Total, ofHce and field, increase on existing positions 

As the increases recommended above in subclerical and custo- 
dian positions, office force, if granted, should also apply to addi- 
tional like positions included in estimates at present salaries, the 
following should be added to the above: 

Skilled laborers 

Telephone-switchboard operator ., 

Elevator conductor 



900 
900 
900 



180 
180 
180 



Total increase recommended in addition to estimates. 



23,670 



1} 7,40& 
1,400 

} 1,400 



13,200 



36, 870 



720 
180 
180 



37, 950 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



41 



The above increases of salaries for clerical, subclerical, and cus- 
todian positions are in accordance with recommendations resulting 
from the conference of chief clerks, held to consider the equalizing 
of entrance salaries for the clerical and minor clerical grades" and to 
provide for a minimum for all subclerical and custodian positions 
above the grade of messenger boy and charwoman. 
By direction of the commission : 
Very respectfully, 

John A. McIlhenny, 

President. 

U. S. Employees' Compensation Commission, 

Washington, October 15, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir: The commission desires to have submitted to Congress its 
recoinmendation for the following increase in the salary of a statutory 
position: 

Chief claim examiner: Present salary, $2,250 per annum; proposed 
salary, $2,700 per annum; increase, $450. 

The function of this position is regarded by the commission as 
most important and the present incumbent is a very efficient man. 
When the statutory salary for this position was established, it was 
considered commensurate with the responsibility of the position, but, 
at present, having especially in mind the fact that the work of the 
commission has increased 45 per cent over last year, the commission 
desires that this salary be raised to $2,700 per annum, beginning 
July 1, 1919. 

Very respectfully, 

Mrs. Frances C. Axtell, 
Chas. H. Verrill, 

Commissioners. 



Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 

Washington, October 31, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury, 

Washington, D. C. 
Spr: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the 
honor to submit below, for. transmission to the Congress, increases 
in statutory, salaries of employees of the District government, to be 
considered in connection with the commissioners' estimates of appro- 
priations to provide for the expenses of the government of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia for the fiscal year 1920: 



• 


Present 
salary. 


Proposed 
salary. 


Increase. 


Executive office: 

3 assistant secretaries, to commissioners 


81,600 

1,400 

1,200 

720 

600 

1,200 


SI, 800 

1,500 

1,400 

840 

720 

1,400 


S200 


3 clerks 


100 


Clerk 


200 


2 clerks.... 


120 


2 messengers 


120 


Stenographer and typewriter 


200 






Total 






1,780 








Veterinary division — Veterinarj' surgeon 


1.200 


1,800 


600 







42 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Purchasing Division: 

Purchasing officer 

Deputy purchasing officer 

Computer 

Chief bookkeeper (change of title from "clerk") 

Clerk 

4 clerks 

Clerk 

Do 

3 clerks 

7 clerks 

Clerk (change of title from assistant inspector of fuel). 

Storekeeper 

Messenger 

Driver 

Inspector of materials 

2 inspectors 

2 clerks (change of title from laborers) 

2 property yard keepers 



Total. 



Building Inspection Division: 

Inspector of buildings 

Principal assistant inspector of buildings 

Assistant inspector of buildings 

Do 

6 assistant inspectors of build ings 

Fire-escar)e inspector 

Civil engineer or computer 

Do 

Chief clerk 

Clerk , . 

Clerk (who shall be a stenographer and typewriter). 

Clerk 

Messenger 

Assistant inspector 



Total. 



Plumbing inspection division: 

Inspector of plumbing 

Principal assistant inspector of pliunbing. 

Assistant Inspector of plumbing 

5 inspectors of plumbing 

Clerk 

Do... 

Do 

Draftsman 

Sewer tapper 



Total. 



Care of District Building: 

Chief engineer 

3 assi5tarit engi.aeers .\ . . 

2 dynamo tenders 

4 firemen 

3 coal r.assers 

Electri'ian's helper 

8 elevator conductors 

2 laborers 

Do 

2 chief cleaners 

Chief watchman 

Assistant chief watchman 

8 watchmen 

Pneumatic-tube operator and mail clerk . 



Total. 



Assessor's office: 

Assessor 

3 assistant assessors. 
Assi-.tant assessor... 

5 field rn en 

Record clerk 

2 record clerks 

Record clerk 

3 clerks 

Clerk 

4 clerks 

Clerk 

Do 



Present 
salary. 



$3,000 

1,800 

1,440 

1,500 

1,500 

1,200 

1,200 

1,200 

900 

840 

1,100 

1,200 

600 

600 

1,400 

900 

600 

1,000 



3,000 
2,000 
1,500 
1,400 
1,200 
1,400 
2,000 
1,500 
1,800 
1,050 
1,000 
900 
600 
1,500 



2,000 
1,550 
1.200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
900 
1,350 
1,000 



1,600 
1,000 

875 
840 
600 
840 
600 
660 
500 
500 
1,000 
660 
600 
600 



3,500 
3, 000 
2,000 
2,000 
1,800 
1,500 
1,200 
1,400 
1,200 
1,000 
900 
720 



Proposed 
salary. 



14,000 
2,500 
1,600 

1,5 
1,800 
1,500 
1,400 
1,300 
1,200 
1,000 
1,200 
1,500 
840 
900 
1,600 
1,200 
1,000 
1,200 



3,500 
2,500 
1,800 
1,500 
1,400 
1,600 
2,100 
1,800 
2,000 
1,200 
1,200 
1,000 
900 
1,800 



2,500 
2,000 
1,800 
1,500 
1,500 
1,400 
1,200 
1,800 
1,500 



1,800 

1,300 

1,200 

1,000 

900 

1,200 

720 

720 

600 

600 

1,400 

1,000 

840 

1,000 



4,500 
3, 500 
2,250 
2,250 
1,900 
1,600 
1,400 
1,500 
1,300 
1,200 
1,000 
900 



IISrCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



43 





Present 
salary. 


Proposec 
salary. 


Increase. 


Assessor's office— Continued. 


$1. 600 
1,200 
900 
600 
1,500 
900 
600 


$1,S0G 
1, 500 
1,000 

S-IO 
1,600 
1,000 

900 


1200 




300 




100 




240 




100 




100 




300 






Total - 






7,620 


Special assessment office: ', 


2,000 

1,200 

900 

750 


2,100 

1,300 

1,000 

900 


100 




100 




100 


X)o 


150 






Total -* 






650 










Personal tax board: 


3,000 
1,800 
1,400 
1,000 
1,200 
1, 200 


• 3, ,500 
2,000 
1,500 
1,200 
1,300 
1,300 


500 




200 


Clerk 


100 




200 




100 




100 






Total 






2,700 


License division: 


2,000 
1,200 
1,000 

900 
1, 200 
1,000 

600 


2,500 
1,300 
1,200 
1,000 
■ 1,400 
1,200 
840 


500 




100 


Clerk 


200 


Do 


100 




200 




200 




240 












1,640 












4,000 

2,000 

2,000 

1, 800 

1,500 

1,600 

1, 200 

1,400 

1,200 

1,000 

900 

720 

1,200 

600 


4,500 

2, 500 

2,200 

2,000 

1,800 

1,700 

1,400 

1,500 

1,300 

1, 200 

1,000 

? 840 

f 1,300 

m 840 


500 




500 




200 




200 




300 




100 


3 bailifEs 


200 


3 clerks 


100 




100 




200 




100 


Clerk 


120 


Cleric and bank messenger . 


100 




240 












5,800 










Auditor 


4,000 

2,250 

1, 800 

1,500 

1,600 

1,350 

1,200 

1,000 

936 

900 

720 

600 

1,800 


6,000 
2; 500 
2,000 
1,600 
1,800 
1,400 
1,400 
1,200 
1,200 
1,000 
1,000 
840 
2,000 


2,000 




250 


Bookkeeper 


200 


Accountant 


100 


2 clerks 


200 


Clerk . 


50 


3 clerks ^ 


200 




200 


Clerk 


264 


2 clerks . . . 


100 


Do 


280 


Messenger . 


240 


Property survey officer 


200 






Disbursing office: 


3,000 
1,600 
1,200 
1,200 
1,000 
900 
600 


4,000 
2,500 
1,.500 
1,440 
1,200 
1,100 
840 


1,000 




900 




300 


Do 


240 




200 


Clerk 


200 




240 






Total.. .t 






9,744 













44 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Office of corporation counsel: 

Corporation counsel 

First assistant 

Second assistant 

Third assistant 

Fourth assistant 

Fifth assistant 

Sixth assistant 

Clerk and stenographer 

Stenographer arid typewriter . 

2 stenographers 

Clerk 



Total. 



Coroner's office: 

Coroner 

Morgue master 

Assistant morgue master and janitor. 
Hostler and janitor 



Total. 



Office of superintendent of weights, measures, and markets: 

Superintendent 

Chief inspector 

5 inspectors 

Clerk 

2 market masters 

Assistant market master 

2 assistant market masters 

A ssistant market master 

Watchman 

5 laborers 

Do : 



Total. 



Engineer commissioner's office: 

Engineer of highways 

Engineer of bridges 

Superintendent of suburban roads 

Sanitary engineer 

Inspector of "asphalts and cements 

Assistant inspector of asphalts and cements 

Superintendent of trees and parkings 

.Assistant superintendent of trees arid parkings. 

2 assistant engineers 

4 assistant engineers 

2 assistant engineers 

Do ". 

Do 

Assistant engineer 

3 transitmen 

Transitman 

2 rodmen 

4 rodmen 

2 rodmen 

4 rodmen 

6 chainmen 

Do 

Draftsman ■. 

Do 

Do 

Do 

General inspector of sewers ■ , 

Inspector of sewers 

Bridge inspector 

Inspector 

5 inspectors, including 2 inspectors of streets 

Inspector 

Do 

8 foremen 

2 foremen 

Do 

Foreman 

6 foremen 

4 foremen 

3 foremen (change of title from subforemen) 

Bridee keeper , 

3 bridge keepers 

Chief clerk 

Permit clerk 

Assistant permit clerk 

Clerk 



Present 
salarjr. 



$4, 500 
2,500 
2,500 
2,000 
1,800 
1, 500 
1,500 
1,400 
1,200 
900 
720 



1,800 
840 
600 
480 



Proposed 
salary. 



2,500 

i;o00 

1,200 

1,200 

900 

600 

780 

600 

600 

600 



3,000 

2,500 

2,250 

3, 300 

2,400 

1,500 

2,000 

1,350 

2,200 

1,800 

1,600 

1,500 

1,350 

1,200 

1,200 

1,050 

900 

900 

900 

780 

720 

650 

1,500 

1,200 

1,200 

1,050 

1,300 

1,200 

1,200 

1,500 

1,200 

1,000 

'900 

1,200 

1,200 

1,200 

1,050 

900 

900 

1,050 

650 

600 

2,250 

1,500 

1.000 

1,800 



$5, 000 
3,600 
3,000 
2,500 
2,000 
1,800 
1,600 
1,500 
1,300 
1,200 
1,000 



Increase. 



2,500 

1,200 

900 

840 



3,000 

1,800 

1,400 

1,400 

1,200 

900 

900 

840 

840 

720 

600 



4,000 
3,000 
2,500 
4,000 
2,750 
1,800 
2,500 
1,800 
2,500 
2,100 
1,800 
1,800 
1,500 
1,500 
1,350 
1,200 
1,200 
1,050 
1,000 
1,000 
900 
900 
1,800 
1,800 
1,350 
1,300 
1,500 
1,400 
1,400 
1,800 
1,400 
1,400 
1,200 
1,500 
1,400 
1,300 
1,300 
1,200 
1,300 
1,500 
900 
840 
2,500 
1,800 
1,200 
1,900 



INCREASE IN STATTJTOEY SALARIES. 



45 





Present 

salary. 


Proposed 
salary. 


Increase. 


Engineer commissioner's office— Continued. 


$1..500 

1.400 

1,350 

1,200 

1,200 

1,000 

900 

840 

720 

600 

600 

625 

720 

1,200 

1.050 

600 

600 

875 

1,400 

900 

975 

630 

630 


%\. 800 

1,500 

1.600 

1,500 

1.3.50 

1,200 

1,200 

1,200 

1,000 

1,000 

840 

900 

1,000 

1,.500 

1,300 

1,020 

900 

1,200 

-1, 500 

1.200 

1,200 

900 

900 


$300 


Clerls: 


100 


Do 


250 




300 


Do 


150 


Do 


200 


Clerk Jt 


300 


2 clerks 


360 


Clerk 


280 


Do . 


400 




240 


Skilled laborer 


275 




280 




300 




250 




420 


2 oilers •- 


300 




325 




100 




300 




225 




270 


2 drivers 


270 






Total 






40, 400 










Central garage: 


1,000 


1,400 


400 












'800 










Office of municipal architect: 


3,600 
2,400 
1, 800 
1.400 
1,300 
2,000 
1,800 
1,350 
1.200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
1,0.50 
1,000 
720 
840 
600 


4,000 
2,500 
2,000 
1, .500 
1, .500 
2,400 
2,000 
1,800 
1,700 

' 1,700 
1.700 
1,700 
1.700 

, 1.700 
1,700 
1.500 
1,400 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
900 


400 




100 




200 


Draftsman . 


100 


Do 


200 


Heating ventilating, and sanitary engineer 


400 




200 




450 


Boss carpenter 


500 


Boss tinner . 


500 




500 


Boss plumber . 


500 




500 


Boss {Trader 


500 




500 


Clerk 


300 


Do 


350 


Do 


200 




480 


Copvist 


360 




300 












7.540 










Assistant superintendent and clerk 


1,800 

720 

1,300 

1,200 

1,100 

1,200 

1,300 

1,200 

1,100 

1,100 

1,100 

1,000 

900 

900 

720 

600 


2,300 
1,000 
1,800 
1,300 
1,300 
1,500 
1,500 
1,500 
1,200 
1,300 
1,400 
1,100 
■ 1, 100 
1,100 
1,100 
900 


500 


2 clerks 


280 


Chief inspector ... . .... 


500 


4 inspectors , 


100 


2 inspectors . . ■ 


200 




300 


Foreman 


200 


4 foremen 


300 


2 foremen 


100 


4 foremen 


200 


2 foremen 


300 


Foreman 


100 


Foremen 


200 


3 assistant foremen , 


200 


2 assistant foromen 


380 


Messenger and driver 


300 






Total 






7,620 










Department of insurance: 


3,500 
2,000 
1,700 
1,200 
900 
840 


4,000 
2,500 
2,000 
1,500 
1,200 
1,000 


500 


Deputy and examiner 


500 




300 


Clerk 


300 




300 


Stenographer 


160 






Total 






2,360 











46 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 

salary. 



Increase. 



Surveyor's office: 

Surveyor 

Assistant surveyor 

Clerk 

Do 

Do 

2 assistant engineers 

Assistant engineer 

, Computer , 

Record clerk , 

Inspector 

Draftsman 

Do 

Assistant computer 

Rodman 

2 rodmen 

3 chainmen 

2 chainmen 

Computer and transitman . 



$3,000 

2,000 

1,225 

975 

675 

1,500 

1,500 

1,200 

1,050 

1,275 

1,225 

900 

900 

825 

825 

700 

650 

1,200 



Total. 



Free Public Library, including Takoma Park branch: 

Librarian 

Assistant librarian 

Children's librarian 

Librarian's secretary , 

Takoma Park branch librarian 

Assistant , 

Assistant in charge of periodicals , 

Assistant , 

7 assistants 

7 assistants, including 1 at Takoma Park branch. . . 
6 assistants, including 1 at Takoma Park branch . . 

Copyist 

Chief, catalogue department 

Classifier 

Cataloguer 

Do 

Two cataloguers 

Stenographer and typewriter 

Do 

Attendant 

6 attendants 

5 attendants 

Collator 

3 messengers '. 

Messenger 

10 pages 

2 pages 

3 janitors 

Janitor 

Janitor at Takoma Park branch. 

Engineer 

Fireman 

Workman 

Library guard 



Total. 



Highway bridge across Potomac River: 

2 draw operators 

Do 

4 watchmen 

Second sergeant of park watchmen. . 
18 park watchmen 



Total. 



Bathing beach: 

Superintendent. 
2 watchmen. . . . 



Total. 



Playgrounds: 

Supervisor 

Inspector of playgrounds 

Clerk (stenographer aijd typewriter) 

To be employed not exceeding 10 months: 

20 directors of playgrounds or recreation centers. 

5 directors of playgrounds or recreation centers. . 
Vssistant director '. 



.per month. . 

do.... 

do.... 



4,000 

1,800 

1,000 

1,000 

1,000 

1,000 

1,000 

900 

840 

720 

600 

600 

1,200 

900 

840 

720 

600 

900 

720 

720 

600 

540 

600 

600 
420 

600 

480 
1,200 
720 
600 
720 



$3, 500 
2,500 
1,500 
1,200 
1,000 
2,100 
1,800 
1,500 
1,300 
1,600 
1,500 
1,300 
1,300 
1,200 
1,000 
900 
900 
1,500 



1,020 
720 
720 
900 
840 



720 
500 



2,500 
1,200 
1,200 

75 
60 



5,000 

2,000 

1,200 

1,500 

1,200 

1,140 

1,140 

1,080 

1,020 

960 

900 

900 

1,500 

1,080 

1,020 

960 

900 

1,200 

900 

1,020 

960 

900 

900 

780 

780 

600 

600 

720 

720 

600 

1,500 

900 

720 

840 



1,200 
900 
960 

1,216 
960 



3,000 
1,800 
1,400 

100 
100 
70 



500 
600 

(,; 200 

_:. \ii^ 25 



INCREASE IN STATTJTOEY SALAKIES. 



47 



P laygrounds— Continued. 

To be employed 12 months: ., 

General utility man per month.. 

20 watchmen ^o 

5 watchmen ^° 

Clerk (bookkeeper) ao 



Total. 



Electrical department: 

Electrical engineer 

Assistant electrical engineer 

Inspector 

4 inspectors 

Electrician 

Draftsman 

Do 

4 telegraph operators 

Expert repairman 

Repairman 

2 repairmen 

Repairman 

10 telephone operators 

Electrical insoector 

Do ". 

Do 

Do 

Do 

2 electrical inspectors 

Clerk 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Assistant repairman 

Messenger i change of title from "laborer") - 

Do....' 

Laborer 

2 laborers^ 

• Storekeeper 



Present 
salary. 



$0.60 
50 
75 



Total. 



Public schools: 
Officers- 
Assistant superintendent 

Do 

Assistant superintendent who shall be general business manager.. 
Assistant superintendent who shall be director of all high schools. . 
Director of intermediate instruction, 13 supervising principals, 
supervisor of manual training and director of primary instruc- 
tion in the white schools, and director of primary mstruction in 
the colored schools, 17 in all, at a minimum salary of— 

16, at 

1, at 

Provided, That the director of intermediate mstruction, 13 
supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, di- 
rector of primary instruction in the white schools, and the 
director of primary instruction in the colored schools, now 
in the service of the pubUc schools or hereafter appointed, 
shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,300 per annum and 
shall be entitled to an increase of SlOO per annum for 5 years: 
Provided, That for the vear ending June 30, 1920, the director 
of intermediate instruction, 13 supervising principals, super- 
yisor of manual training, the dire3tor of primary mstruction 
in the whites3hools and the director of primary instruction 
inthe3oloreds3hoolsshalleachreceivethesalaryinhisclass 
next aboye his present salary. 

Se3retary 

3 clerks 

Cler.c to 3arr v out the provisions of the child-labor law 

2 stenographers 

Messenger 

Attendance officers- 
Attendance officer 

2 attendance officers - 

Attendance officer 

3 attendance officers 

Principal of Central High School 

Provided, That the principal of the Central High School now 
in the service of the public schools or hereafter to be appointed 
shall be placed at a basic salary of $3,500 per annum and shall be 
entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for 5 years. 



2,750 
2,000 
1,000 

900 
1,200 
1,000 
1,000 
1,000 
1,200 

900 

ono 

S40 

600 

2,000 

1,800 

l,:-!50 

1,200 

1,200 

1,200 

1,400 

1,200 

1,125 

1,125 

1,050 

750 

620 

630 

600 

600 

540 

875 



Proposed 
salary. 



0.70 
70 
70 
100 



Increase. 



3,500 
3,000 



2,200 
1,400 



3,000 

2,500 

1,400 

1,200 

1,500 

1,800 

1,300 

1,400 

] . 100 

1,200 

1,000 

900 

660 

2,100 

2,000 

1.600 

1,600 

1,500 

1,100 

1,600 

1,400 

1,:500 

1,200 

1,200 

1,000 

900 

840 

840 

800 

800 

900 



4,000 
4,000 
4,000 
4,000 



2,300 
2,300 



2,000 
1,000 

900 
1,000 

720 

900 
800 
600 
600 

3,000 



2,400 
1,200 
1,200 
1,200 
810 

1,200 

1,100 

1,100 

900 

3,500 



14, 070 



250 
500 
400 
300 
300 
800 
300 
400 
200 
300 
100 

60 

60 
100 
200 
250 
400 
300 
200 
200 
200 
175 

75 
150 
250 
280 
210 
210 
200 
260 

25 



10, 885 



500 

1,000 

500 

500 



ICO 
000 



400 
200 
300 
200 
120 

300 
300 
500 
300 

500 



48 



INCREASE IN STATUTOEY SALARIES. 



Public schools— Continued. 
Teachers— Continued. 

Assistant principal of the Central High School 

Provided, That said assistant principal shall be placed at a 
basic salary of .$2,600 per annum and shall be entitled to an 
increase of $100 per annum for 2 years. 
Principal of normal, high, and manual-training high schools, 8, at. 
Provided, That the principals of normal, high, and manual- 
training h,igh schools, other than the Central High School, now 
in the serv'ice of the public schools or hereafter to be appointed, 
shall be placed at a basic salary of $3,000 per armum and shall be 
entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for 5 years. 
Assistant principal, who shall be dean of girls of the Central High 

School ■ 

Provided, That said assistant principal shall be placed at a 
basic salary of $2,600 per annum and shall be entitled to an 
increase of $100 per annum for 2 years. 
Directors in charge of white schools and directors in charge of col- 
ored schools of music, drawing, ph.ysicalcalture, domestic scienc, 
domestic art, kindergartens, penmanship, and assistant super- 
visor of manual trainmg, In — 

7, at 

8, at 

Provided, That the directors in charge of white schools and 
directors in charge of colored schools of music, drawing, 
physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, kindergar- 
tens, penmanship, and assistant supervisor of manual train- 
ing shall be placed at a basic salary of $1,nOO per annum and 
shall be entitled to an increase of SJOO per annum for o vears. 
Provided, That for the year ending .Tune 30, l'.i20, the'direc- 
tors in charge of the white schools and directors in charge of 
the colored schools of music, drawing, physical culture, do- 
mestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, penmanship, 
and assistant supervisor of manual training shall each re- 
ceive the salary in his class next above his present salary. 
Heads of departments in high and manual-training hit;h schools in 
group C of class 6 — 

12,at 

2, at 

Provided, That said heads of departments shall be placed 
at a basic salary of $2,600 per annum and shall be entitled to 
an increase of §100 per annum for two years. 
Normal, high, and manual-training high schools, promoted for su- 
perior work, gronn C of class 6— 

21, at : 

7, at 

Provided, That teachers of group C of class 6 shall be placed 
at a basic salary of $2,600 per annum, and shall be entitled to 
an increase of ?100 per annum for two years. 

Provided, That teachers shall be promoted from group B 
ofclass6togroupCofclass6 underthesame condition hith- 
erto provided for in promotion froni group A, class 6, to 
group B, class 6. Teachers now in group B of class 6 are 
hereby placed in grou]) C of class 6. 
Teachers of normal, high, and manual-training high schools pro- 
moted for superior work, group B of class 6, 1,50, at , 

Provided, That teachers promoted from group A to group B 
of class 6 shall be placed at a basic salary of $2,300 per annum 
and shall be entitled to an increase of $100 per annum for two 
years. 

Provided, That promotion from group A, class 6, to group B, 
class 6, shall be without examination from the group of teachers 
who have reached the maximum of group A, class C, upon the 
recommendation of the superintendent of schools, approved by 
the board of education. 
Group A of class 6, including 7 principals of grade manual-train- 
ing schools and 5 assistants to the director of primary instruc- 
tion in the white schools, and the director of primary instruction 

in the colored schools, 208, at. 

_ Provided, That teachers of group A, class 6, including 7 prin- 
cipals of the grade manual-training schools, and 5 assistants to 
the director of primary instruction in the white schools and the 
director of primary instruction in the colored schools now in the 
service of the public schools or hereafter to be appointed, shall 
be placed at a basic salary of $1,400 per annum, and shall be en- 
titled to an increase of $100 per annum for 8 years. 

Provided, That for the year ending June 30, 1920, that teach- 
ers of group A, class 6, includmg 7 principals of grade manual- 
training schools, and .5 assistants to the director of primary in- 
struction in the white schools, and the director of primary 
instruction in the colored schools, shall each receive in his class 
the salary next above his present salary. 

Provided, That an employee transfe'rred from another posi- 
tion in the service of the board of education to the position of 
principal of grade manual-training school shall not suffer a de- 
crease of salary by such transfer. 



Present 
salary. 



$1, 800 



2, .500 



1,800 



1,.500 
1,300 



Proposed 
salary 



1,900 




$2, 600 



3,000 



2,600 



1,S00 
1,S00 



Increase. 



2,600 
2.600 



2,600 
2,600 



1,000 



$800 



500 



800 



300 
oOO 



700 
700 



700 
700 



2,300 



1,400 



500 



400 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



49 





Present 


Proposed 






salary. 


salary. 




Public schools— Continued. 








Teachers— Continued. 








Class 5, 292, at $1,300 each, including vocational and trade in- 








structors, teachers of seventh and eighth grades, model teachers 








in grades below the seventh grade, and in kindergartens, teach- 








ers of manual training, drawing, physical culture, music, domes- 










$950 


$1,300 


$350 


Class 4, 428 at $1,200 each, including teachers of th(= fifth and sixth 






grades, kindergarten principals, teachers of manual trainmg, 








drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science,, domestic 








art in the graded schools, and teachers not otherwise provided ■ 










800 


1,2C0 


400 


Class 3, 542 at $1,200 ea.ch, including teachers of third and fourth 






750 


1,200 


450 


Class 2, 379 at SI, 200 each, including teachers of the first and second 










750 


1,200 


450 


Class 1, 95 at .$1,200 each, including kindergarten assistant teach- 










750 


1,200 


450 


Provided, That all teachers herein provided for shall be en- 








titled to the full amount of any increased compensation granted 








for the fl.'^cal year 1920 regardless of the increase herein made. 










800 


1,200 


400 


Librarians and clerks- 








Ten librarians in high and normal schools in class 5 at $1,209 








each, 38 clerks in class 4 at $1,000 each— 








10 at 


840 
720 


1,200 
1,000 
1,000 


360 


28 at . 


280 


10 at 


280 


Longevity pay: For longevity nay for director of intermediate 






instruction, supervising principals, supervisor and assistant 








supervisor of manual training, principals of normal, high, and 








manual-training high schools, assistant prmcipal of the Central 








High School, the assistant principal (who shall be dean of 








ghls) of the Central High School, principals of grade manual- 
















instruction in the white schools and director of primary in- 








struction in the colored schools, directors in the white schools 








and directors in the colored schools of drawing, phv-ical cul- 








ture, music, domestic science, domestic art, kindergartens, 
and penmanship, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and 














librarians to be paid in, strict conformitv with the pro'V'lsions 








of the act entitled "An act to fix and regulate the salaries of 








teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of 








education of the District of Columbia," approved June 20, 1906, 
as amended by the acts appioved May 26, 1908, May 18,1910, 














and June 26 1912 . 




.500,000 




Janitors and care of buildings and grounds — 








1,500 


2,000 


500 


Central High (new)— 










1,500 


1,800 


300 




900 


1,200 


600 






1,200 

1,400 

900 

900 

840 


300 




1,200 

720 


200 


f3 firemen . . . 


540 




ISO 


/Coal passer 


540 


300 


\Coal passer 




840 


300 




1,100 
900 


1,300 
1,080 


200 


/2 assistant janitors . 


180 






1,080 


180 




720 
480 
500 


840 
720 
720 
720 


120 


2 charwomen 


240 




220 


\l laborer . . . 


220 








Engineer . . 


1,200 

1,000 

720 

540 


1,500 

1,200 

900 

840 


300 




200 


2 firemen . . 


180 


Coal passer 


300 




1,000 
900 
500 
4,S0 
720 


1,200 

1,0,<^0 

720 

720 

840 


200 


A ssistant janitor 


180 




229 


2 charwomen . 


240 




120 


Central High School Cold) and annex- 




Janitor 


1,000 
500 


1,200 
720 


200 


4 laborers 


220 


Business High School- 




Janitor 


1,000 


1,200 
1,080 


200 


A.ssistant janitor 


180 


4 laborers 


500 


720 


220 



H. Doc. 1365, 65-3- 



50 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 
salary. 



Increase. 



Public schools — Continued. 

Janitors and care of buildings and groimds — Continued. 
J. Ormond Wilson Normal School and Ross School — 

Engineer , 

Janitor , 

Niglit watchman , 

4 laborers 

Jefferson School — 

Janitor , 

2 laborers 

Western High School — ' 

Janitor , 

4 laborers , 

Franklin School- 
Janitor , 

3 laborers , 

Myrtilla Miner Normal School — 

Janitor 

Assistant janitor , 

3 laborers , 

Charwoman 

Eastern High School — 

Janitor . 

2 laborers 

Stevens School — 

Janitor 

2 laborers 

McKinley Manual Training School — 

Janitor r. 

Engineer and instructor in steam engineering 

Assistant engineer 

Assistant janitor 

Night watchman 

2 firemen 

/3 laborers 

\2 laborers , 

Armstrong Manual Training School — 

Janitor 

Assistant janitor 

Engineer and instructor in steam engineering 

Assistant engineer 

Night watchman 

Fireman 

2 laborers 

I laborer 

M Street High School (old) and Douglass and Simmons Schools — 

Engineer 

Janitor 

4 laborers 

II janitors 

11 laborers 

Do 

22 janitors 

22 laborers 

10 janitors 

73 janitors 

4 janitors 

10 janitors 

3 janitors 

For matrons in the normal and high schools and larger grade 

school buildings, including the following: Wilson Normal, 
Miner Normal, New Central High School, Dunbar High, 
Business High, Western High, Eastern High, McKinley 
Manual Training High, Armstrong Manual Training High, 
Jefferson, Thomson, Stevens, Bimey and annex, Elizabeth 
V. Brown, Emery, New Mott, Henry D. Cooke, Gage, 
Hem-y, Petworth.'Park View, Phelps, Powell, and Wallach 
Schools, 24, at S780 each— 

/9 matrons 

\15 matrons 

Medical inspectors — 

Chief medical and sanitai'y inspector, who shall, under the di- 
rection of the health oflicer of the District of Columbia, give 
his whole time to , and exercise the direction and control of 
the medical inspection and sanitary conditions of thfe 
public schools of the District of Colunibia 

16 medical inspectors of public schools, 1 of whom shall be a 
woman, 4 shall be dentists, and 4 shall be of the colored race, 
at 



$1,000 
800 
720 
500 

1,000 
500 

1,100 
500 

1,000 
'500 

1,000 



500 

480 

1,009 
500 

1,000 
500 

1,000 
1,500 
1,000 
720 
720 
720 
500 



1,000 
720 

1,200 
720 
720 
720 
500 



1,000 
900 
500 

1,000 
500 



840 
500 
840 
720 
600 
600 
250 



500 



2,500 
500 



SI, 500 

1,200 

840 

720 

1,200 
720 

1,200 
720 

1,200 
720 

1,200 

1,080 

720 

720 

1,200 

720 

1,200 
720 

1,200 

1,800 

1,200 

1,080 

840 

900 

720 

720 

1,200 

1,080 

1,500 

1,200 

840 

900 

720 

720 

1,300 

1,200 
720 

1,200 
720 
720 

1,080 
720 

1,080 
960 
840 
840 
480 



780 
780 



3,000 
840 



Total. 



1,035,630 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



51 



Police department: 

Major and superintendent 

/Assistant superintendent 

\2 assistant superintendents 

3 inspectors , 

111 captains 

\Captain 

Chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk 

Clerk, \vho shall be a stenographer 

' Clerk, who shall be assistant property clerk 

3 clerks 

Clerk -• 

Four surt'eons of the police and fire departments 

{18 lieutenants, 1 of whom shall be harbor master 
5 lieutenants 

(54 sergeants 

\3 sergeants 

f492 privates of class 3 ■ 

\1 private of class 3 

/78 privates of class 2 

\8 privates of class 2 ■ 

fl96 privates of class 1 

Vl privates of class 1 

f6 telephone clerks (change of title from "operators") 

\i telephone clerks 

fie janitors 

\4 janitors 

Laborer '. 

Messenger ■ 

Inspector mounted on horse or motor vehicle 

j58 captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates mounted on horses 

J or for motor vehicles allowances at 

1 12 captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates mounted on horses 

I or for motor vehicle allowances 

f30 drivers 

\10 drivers , 

.5 police matrons to possess police powers of arrest 

4 policewomen , 

House of detention — 

2 clerks 

2 drivers 

6 guards 

Janitor ». 

3 matrons to possess police powers of arrest 

Harbor patrol — 

2 engineers 

2 firemen 

"Watchman , 

2 deck hands 



Present 
salary. 



$i, 000 
2,500 



2,000 
2,000 



Total. 



Fire department: 

Chief engineer , 

2 deputy chief engineers 

8 battalion chief engineers 

Fire marshal ' 

Deputy fire marshal 

2 inspectors 

4 inspectors 

Chief clerk 

Clerk 

38 captains 

40 lieutenants 

41 sergeants , 

Superintendent of machinery 

Assistant superintendent of machinery . 

27 engineers 

27 assistant engineers 

2 pilots 

2 marine engineers , 

2 assistant marine engineers 

2 marine firemen 

342 privates of class 2 , 

,103 privates, class 1 

Hostler 

Laborer 



Total. 



2,000 
1,500 
1,200 
1,000 
700 
840 
1,600 



1,400 
'i,'326 



1,200 

'i,"6s6' 



900 

'eoo' 



720- 
600 
360 

360 



720 
900 

1,000 
7S0 
600 
600 
720 

1,000 
600 
600 
600 



3,500 
2,500 
2,000 
2,000 
1,400 
1,080 



2,000 

1,400 

1,500 

1,320 

1,200 

2,000 

1,200 

1,200 

1,140 

1,150 

1,200 

1,140 

840 

1,140 

960 

600 

600 



Proposed 
salai'y. 



$5, 000 
3,000 
3,000 
2, 500 
2, 250 
2,250 
2, 500 
1,800 
1,400 
1,200 
900 
1,200 
1, 850 
1,850 
1,600 
1,600 
1, 500 
1,500 
1,380 
1,380 
1,260 
1,260 
1,000 
1,000 
900 
900 
1,080 
840 
420 

420 

420 
1,200 
1,200 

900 
1,200 

1,100 

1,000 

900 

900 

900 

1,400 
900 
840 



4,000 
2,750 
2,200 
2,300 
1,600 
1,200 
1,200 
2,200 
1,500 
1,700 
1,520 
1,400 
2,300 
1,800 
1,380 
1,320 
1,350 
1,400 
1,340 
1,000 
1,320 
1,140 
900 
840 



Increase. 



,000 
500 
SOO 
500 
250 
250 
500 
300 
200 
200 
200 
360 
250 
250 
200 
200 
180 
180 
180 
180 
180 
180 
100 
100 
300 
300' 
360 
240 
60 

60 

60 
300 
300 
180 
300 

lOO 
220 
300 
300 
180 

400 
300 
240 
240 



205, 630 



500 
250 
200 
300 
200 
120 
120 
20O 
100 
200 
200 
200 
30O 
600 
180 
180 
200 
200 
200 
160 
180 
180 
300 
240 

120,700 



52 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Present 
salary. 



Health department: 

Health officer 

Assistant health officer 

Chief bureau of vital statistics 

Clerk : 

Do 

4 clerks 

Do 

2 clerks 

Clerk ; 

Chief sanitary inspector 

■ Assistant chief sanitary inspector 

9 sanitary inspectors 

6 sanitary inspectors 

2 sanitarj'' inspectors - 

3 sanitary inspectors 

Chief food inspector 

Assistant chief food inspector 

5 food inspectors 

<5 food inspectors 

5 food inspectors 

Chemist 

^ Assistant chemist 

Chief, bureau of preventable diseases and director of bacteriological 

laboratory 

2 assistant bacteriologists 

Skilled laborer 

2 messengers 

2 chauffeurs 

Poundmaster 

Watchman 

8-hour labor law for females: Stenographer and clerk 



U, 000 
2,500 
1,800 
1,600 
1,200 
1,200 
1,000 
900 
720 
1,800 
1,400 
1,200 



Total. 



Probation system: 
Supreme court- 
Probation officer 

Assistant probation officer 

Stenographer and typewriter . 



Total. 



Juvenile court— 

■ Financial clerk, who is authorized to act as deputy clerk. 

Steno'Trapher and typewriter, who is authorized to act as deputv 

clerk '. '. 

Stenographer and typewriter, for judge's work and to aid in keep- 

ing records in clerk's office 

Chief probation officer 

4 probation officers 

' Telephone operator 

Messenger to also perform clerical work 



Total. 



Police court— 

2 judges 

Clerk 

Deputy clerk 

Do 

2 deputy clerks 

Deputy financial clerk. .... 

Probation officer 

Assistant probation officer. 

Janitor 

Engineer 

Assistant engineer 

Fireman 

3 cleaners 

Cleaner 

Telephone operator 



Tptal. 



Municipal court — 

5 judges , 

4 assistant clerks . 

Messenger 

Janitor 



Total. 



1,000 
900 
1,800 
1,400 
1,200 
1,000 
900 
2,000 
1, 500 

2, 750 
1,200 
600 
600 
720 
1,400 
600 
900 



Proposed 

salary. 



2,000 

1,200 

900 



1,200 

1,080 

1,080 

1,800 

1,000 

600 

600 



3,600 

2,200 

1,600 

1, 500 

1,200 

1, 500 

1,500 

1,200 

600 

900 

720 

600 

360 



3,000 
1,000 



600 



$5, 000 
3,000 
2,000 
1,800 
1,500 
1,400 
1,100 
1,000 
1,000 
2, 000 
1,600 
1,300 
1,300 
1,250 
1,200 
2, 250 
1,600 
1,300 
1, 250 
1,200 
2,500 
2,000 

3,000 

1,500 
720 
840 
900 

1,500 
840 

1,100 



2, 500 
1, 500 
1,200 



1,400 

1,200 

1,200 

2,000 

1,200 

720 

900 



5,000 

3,000 

2,000 

1,800 

1,800 

2,000 

2,000 

1,800 

900 

1,200 

1,020 

900 

480 

480 

720 



3,600 

1,200 

840 

720 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



53 



Charities and corrections: 
Board of Charities — 

Assistant secretary 

Chief inspector (change of title from "clerk"). 
Messeneer 

2 insnectors 

Do 

Do 

Do 

Driver, who shall act as foreman of stables 

3 drivers 

Hostler 



Total. 



Washinston Asylum and Jail — 

Resident T^hvsiian 

Blacksmith and woodworker 

Driver for deadwagon 

Hostler 

Driver for sunply and laundry wagon 

Assistant cook. 

2 graduate nurses 

Graduate nurse for receiving ward 

Reristered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk . 

Seamstress 

Housekeener ■ 

Laimdrvman 

Assisstant laimdryman 

3 laimdresses 

2 chambermaids, 3 waiters, and 7 ward maids 



Present | Proposed 
salary. salary 



$l,fiO0 
1,400 

eoo 

l,''00 
1,000 
POO 
840 
' 900 
7"0 
540 



Total. 



Home for asred and infirm— 

Surierintendent 

Clerk 

Matron 

Baker 

Laundryman 

Chief engineer 

Assistant engineer 

Physician and nharmacist ^ . . . 

Second assistant engineer 

2 male attendants 

2 nurses 

2 female attendants 

3 firemen 

Assistant cook 

Do 

Foreman of constraction and repair. 

Blacksmith and woodworker 

Farmer 

4 farm hands 

Dairyman 

Tailor :.... 

Seamstress 

Laundress 

Hostler and driver 

3 servants 

Night watchman ', 



Total. 



National Training School for Girls- 
Superintendent 

Resident clerk (change of titlefrom "Treasurer"). 

Matron , 

4 teachers , 

Overseer , 

2 parole officers 

7 teachers of industries 

Engineer 

Assistant engineer 

Night watchman 

2 laborers 



Total. 



Tuberculosis Hospital — 
Pharmacist and clerk. 

Engineer 

Laundryman 

Elevator conductor. . . 



500 
365 
?40 
?40 
180 
480 
480 
7'?0 
300 
4'^0 
7'^0 
450 
360 
180 



?'', 500 

1,500 

900 

1,400 

1, ?00 

1,100 

1,000 

1,000 

900 

750 



lj?00 
900 
600 
540 
540 

1,000 
7?0 
480 
480 
360 
360 
300 
360 
360 
180 
840 
540 
720 
360 
360 
360 
240 
240 
240 
144 
240 



1,200 
600 
600 
600 
720 
600 
480 
720 
600 
480 
300 



780 
720 
600 
300 



600 
7"0 
400 
.300 
300 
?40 
540 
540 
1,000 
500 
600 
840 
500 
4*^0 
300 



Increase. 



2,000 
1,?00 

7'-0 
600 
600 
1,500 
1,000 
600 
7?0 

r^o 

4-^0 
360 
600 
480 
?40 
900 
7'^0 
900 
400 
900 
500 
300 
420 
400 
240 
480 



1,500 
800 
800 
700 
900 
800 
600 

1,200 
900 
600 
480 



900 



720 
360 



100 
300 
200 
200 
200 
160 
100 
180 
210 



3,670 



120 

2?0 

35 

60 

60 

60 

60 

60 

?80 

200 

180 

120 

50 

60 

i:o 



3,185 



80O 

300 

120 

60 

60 

500 

280 

120 

240 

60 

60 

60 

240 

120 

60 

60 

180 

180 

40 

540 

140 

60 

180 

160 

96 

240 



5,928 



300 
200 
200 
100 
180 
200 
120 
480 
300 
120 
180 



3,780 



120 
180 
120 
160 



54 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 
salary 



Increase. 



Charities and corrections— Continued. 
Tuberculosis Hospital— Continued, 

3 laundresses , 

Farmer 

Laborer 

Night watchman , 

Assistant laim.dryman 

3 ward maids 

4 servants 



360 
360 
360 
360 
240 
240 



Total. 



Board of Children's Guardians — 

Executive ofHcer (change of title from "Agent") 

Assistant officer (change of title from "Clerk") 

Clerk 

Stenographer 

2 placing and investigating ofTicers 

Placing and investigating officer 

4 placing and investigating officers 

Do 

Placing and investigating ofhcer 

Compiling clerk (change of title from " Record clerk") . 

Messenger 

Laborer 



1,800 

1,200 

900 

900 

1,200 

1,000 

900 

900 

900 

900 

500 

500 



Total. 



Industrial Home for School for Colored Children — 

Superintendent 

Matron of school 

3 caretakers 

2 assistant caretakers 

Nurse 

Sewing teacher 

3 teachers 

Manual training teacher 

Farmer 

Blacksmith and wheelwright 

Farm laborer 

Stableman 

Watchman 

Cook 

Laundress 



Total. 



Industrial Home School- 
Supervisor of boys 

Matron 

3 matrons 

Housekeeper 

Sewing teacher 

2 assistant matrons 

Nurse 

Manual training teacher . 

Engineer 

Farmer 

Cook 

Laundress 

2 housemaids 



Total. 



Mimicipal Lodging House and Wood Yard- 
Cook 



Temporary Home for Ex- Union Soldiers and Sailors- 
Janitor 

Cook 



Total. 



Workhouse and Reformatory — 

Superintendent 

Physician 

Chief engineer 

Electrician 

Superintendent of commissary. 

Total 



1,200 
480 
360 
360 
360 
360 
4S0 
600 
480 
480 
360 
300 
300 
240 
240 



780 
480 
360 
360 
360 
300 
360 
660 
720 
540 
300 
300 
ISO 



360 



360 
360 



3,000 
1,680 
1,200 
1,200 
1,080 



$420 
480 
400 
480 
480 
300 
300 



2,500 
1,500 
1,200 
1,200 
1,400 
1,400 
1,400 
1,300 
1,200 
1,200 
900 
780 



1,500 
680 
580 
480 
480 
480 
600 
780 
750 
750 
480 
400 
480 
420 
420 



900 
680 
580 
480 
480 



780 
900 
720 
420 
420 
300 



400 
460 



4,000 
1,800 
1,500 
1,400 
1,200 



SISO 
120 
40 
120 
120 
60 
60 



1,840 



700 
300 
300 
300 
200 
400 
500 
400 
300 
300 
400 
280 



300 
200 
220 
120 
120 
120 
120 
180 
270 
270 
120 
100 
180 
180 
180 



3,480 



120 

200 
220 
120 
120 
180 
120 
120 
180 
180 
120 
120 
120 



2,660 



120 



40 
100 



140 



1,000 
120 
300 
200 
120 

1,740 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 



55 



Present 
salary. 



Proposed 



Increase. 



Charities and Corrections— Continued. 
Workhouse — 

Administration — 

Assistant superintendent 

Chiief clerk 

Head matron 

Stenographer 

Stenographer and officer 

Operation — 

Foreman construction 

Foreman- stone-crushing plant 

Foreman sawmill 

Superintendent brickkiln 

Clay worker 

Superintendent of tailor shop 

Maintenance- 
Superintendent of clothing and laundry 

Captain of guards 

Captain of night watch 

2 receiving and discharging officers 

Superintendent of laimdry .' 

2 day guards 

22 day guards 

12 night guards 

Day officer 

3 night officers 

Hospital nurse 

Captain of steamboat 

Engineer of steamboat 



Reformatory — 

Chief clerk 

Captain of day officers. 
Captain of night force.. 

4 nisrht officers 

2 night officers. 



Total. 



Militia: 

Custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms . 

Principal clerk, office of The Adjutant General 

Total 



General fund . 



Water Department: 

Revenue and inspection branch- 
Water registrar 

Clerk 

Do 

3 clerks 

Index clerk .■ 

8 meter computers 

Meter clerk 

Tap clerk. 

Chief inspector 

19 inspectors 

Messenger : 

Distribution branch — 

Superintendent 

Engineer. 

Assistant engineer ■ 

Do 

General foreman (change of title from " foreman") , 

Foreman (change of title from "assistant foreman") 

Do... 

Do 

Do .- 

Chief steam engineer 

2 steam engineers 

3 assistant steam engineers 

Chief inspector of valves 

Leveler 

Inspector 

Draftsman 

Clerk 

Do 

3 clerks 

Superintendent of transportation and stores (change of title from 

" stores clerk ") 

2 clerks 



1,200 
900 
720 
600 

900 
900 
900 
1,500 
480 



1,200 
900 

1,000 
720 
900 
840 
720 
600 
600 
600 

1,100 

1,000 



1,400 

1,000 

1,000 

840 

1,000 
1,000 
1,000 
1,600 
600 
720 

900 

1,400 

1,000 

1,200 

840 

1,000 

900 

900 

900 

900 

720 

1,500 

1,500 



$120 
200 
100 
280 
240 

100 
100 
100 
100 
120 
240 

60 
200 
100 
200 
120 
100 

60 
180 
300 
300 
120 
400 
500 



,480 



1,200 

1,200 

1,080 

720 



1,400 

1,400 

1,300 

840 

840 



200 
200 
220 
120 
120 



1,340 



1,000 
1,000 



1,200 
1,400 



200 
400 
600 



1,619,228 



2,400 
1,500 
1,200 
1,000 
1,400 
1,000 
1,200 
1,000 
1,000 
900 
600 

3,300 
2,400 
1,800 
1,700 
1,800 
1,275 
1,200 
1,125 
900 
1,750 
1,200 
1,000 
1,600 
1,200 
1,200 
1,050 
1,800 
1,500 
1,200 

1,500 
1,000 



2,700 
1,800 
1,500 
1,300 
1,700 
1,300 
1,500 
1,300 
1,300 
1,200 
900 

4,000 
2, 500 
2,100 
2,000 
2,100 
1,500 
1,500 
1,400 
1,200 
2,200 
1,500 
1,300 
1,900 
i;500 
1,500 
1,300 
2,100 
1,800 
1,500 

2,000 
1,300 



300 
300 
300 
300 
300 
300 
300 
300 
300 
300 
300 

700 
100 
300 
300 
300 
225 
300 
275 
300 
450 
300 
300 
300 
300 
300 
250 
300 
300 
300 

500 
300 



56 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 





Present 
salary. 


Proposed 
salary. 


Increase. 


"Water department— Continued. 

Revenue and inspection branch— Continued. 

Timekeeper • . 


1900 
90n 
675 
720 
900 
900 
700 
630 
600 
600 


$1,200 

1,200 

900 

1,020 

1,200 

1,100 

1,000 

900 

S40 

840 


$300 


2 rodmen 


300 


2 chain men. 


225 




300 


3 firemen 


300 


Janitor . . : 


200 


Driver 


300 


Do... .. 


270 


Messenaier _ 


240 


Do... 


240 






Water fund... 






24, 600 











(6) Alternate lump-sum estimate to provide for increases in annual salaries of employees of 
the government of the District of Columbia, as the Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia may consider advisable •. $1,643,828.00 

(c) A mount required to increase statutory salaries in addition to increases granted hv Con- 
gress -■ 246,574.20 

The commissioners urge the increases recommended, basing their 
action not only upon their own experience in meeting requests for 
increases during the past year but upon the records of increases 
granted by the Federal Government and by activities generally. 
Within the past week the newspapers announced an increase by the 
Government of railroad wages, dating back to January 1, 1918, 
amounting to some $400,000,000 a year. The Senate in September 
appointed an additional clerk for the Committee on Finance at $150 
per month. In Bridgeport, Conn., it was determined that the cost 
of living had risen 61.4 per cent since 1915. 

It IS beheved by the commissioners that the foregoing increases are 
imperatively necessary for the public service of the District of 
Columbia, for the reason that conditions have changed so rapidly, 
They are of the opinion that the Government service can not be 
operated unless the said increases are granted. 
Very respectfully, 

Board of Commissioners of the 

District of Columbia. 
By John G. D. Knight, 
W. GwYNN Gardiner. 



APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX A. 

[In explanationof the estimates submitted by the Librarian of Congress.] 

Library of Congress, 

Washington, October 14, 1919. 
Sir: The estimates of the Library of Congress for the year ending June 30, 1920, are 
submitted herewith. 

They include the following: 

New positions recommended included in former estimates : 
Documents — 

2 translators at |1,200 each |2, 400 

1 assistant at $1,200 submitted in the annual estimates for 1910 
and for the years following to and including 1915; "2 transla- 
tors at $1,200 each " submitted in the estimates for 1913-14-15, 
1918-19. 
Law library — 

1 stenogi-apher and typewriter at 1, 200 

Submitted (at $900) in estimates for the years 1910-15, and (at 
$1,080) for 1918-19. 
Semitic and oriental literature — 

1 assistant at 1, 000 

Submitted (at |900) in estimates for 1917 and 1918 and (at 

$1,000) for 1919. 

4,600 

INCREASES OF SALARY. 

No increases in statutory salaries are submitted with these estimates. Recom- 
mendations for such increases will be embodied in a' separate letter, addressed to 
you, for transmission to the Congress for its consideration. 

Increases in other items : 

Legislative reference from $30,000 to $40,000. _. $10, 000 

Distribution of card indexes, for services of assistants at salaries less than 
$1,000 per annum, and for piecework and work by the hour, * * * 
including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling 
expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attend- 
ance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction 

of the Librarian, $17,000 to $19,500 2,500 

Increase of Library of Congress for pm'chase of books for the Library, 

1910-11 $100, 000 

1911-12 90, 000 

1912-18 '. 90, 000 

1913-14 90, 000 

1914-15 : 90, 000 

1915-16 90, 000 

1916-17 90, 000 

1917-18 90, 000 

1918-19 90, 000 

1919-20 (estimate) 100, 000 

An increase of 10, 000 

Summary: 

4 new positions •- 4, 600 

Legislative reference 10, 000 

Card division (positions at less than $1,000) 2, 500 

Increase of library 10, 000 

27, 100 
57 



58 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

CHANGES IN PHRASEOLOGY. 

Legislative reference: Omit the words ''Provided, That no person shall be employed 
hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding |3,000 per annum. " 

Sunday opening: Omit the words "From two until ten o'clock postmeridian. " 
Very respectfully, 

A. P. C. Griffin, 

Acting Librarian. 
The Secretary op the Treasury. 



APPENDIX B. 

memorandum explaining increases, changes, etc., in the estimates of the 
department op state for the fiscal year ending june 30, 1920. 

Department op State, 
Washington, November 7, 1918. 
The Secretary op the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith estimates of appropriations required for 
this department and for foreign intercourse for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, 
amounting in all to $11,042,236.66, which is an increase over the appropriations for 
the current year_ of $2,307,410. Before undertaking a detailed explanation of the 
reasons for each increase recommended, it seems important, first, to state the main 
principles which have governed the preparation of the estimates. 

It is generally recognized that, as a result of the war in which we are now engaged, 
the United States has come to occuj)y a position of singular importance and responsi- 
bility in international affairs. This is true pf the field of international politics as well 
as of the fields of finance and commerce. Events have succeeded one another so 
rapidly that our unsought position has resulted before we were fully awake to the real 
significance of the world-wide changes which created it. We now find ourselves, 
therefore, facing enormous international responsibilities, which our own people will 
expect us to discharge in a manner creditable to ourselves and just to the rest of the 
world. We can not afford to do less than this. Inasmuch as the future peace of the 
world must rest in the main upon more intimate acquaintance, closer relations, and 
fuller and friendlier discussion of the problems that arise from time to time, the part 
which the United States must henceforth play in international affairs must be based 
upon undisputed facts and mature and intelligent consideration of them. The gath- 
ering of information of a political, economic, industrial, and technical nature and the 
consideration of it in the light of the conditions abroad upon which it bears makes 
necessary an organization adequate, intelligent, and well equipped to insiare prompt 
and trustworthy results. There will be hundreds of new problems to be considered, 
many of which will have an important and lasting effect upon our political and eco- 
nomic welfare; there will be thousands of claims to be adjudicated, and many other 
questions of vital importance to our people. The department as at present organized 
and manned is utterly incapable of successfully undertaking the task with which it is 
confronted, and in a lesser degree this is also true of the Diplomatic and Consular 
Services. The personnel of all three branches of the service has given itself unre- 
servedly to the discharge of the enormous duties imposed upon it by the war conditions 
and has done its work exceptionally well. It is, however, neither sufficiently numerous 
nor adequately compensateji to alone deal successfully with the problems which we 
are about to face. A large increase in personnel and an advance in salaries is imperative 
if we are to do in a creditable way that which the world expects of us. 

In submitting these estimates I do not wish to be understood as adA^ocating the 
creation of any machinery of Government that shall parallel or duplicate that already 
functioning elsewhere. On the contrary, it is my purpose to urge the establishment 
in this department of an organization capable of adapting and utilizing in the inter- 
national relations of this Government and in diplomatic discussions the work being 
done and the material being collected in other departments of the Government for 
their particular purposes, in addition to carrying on such investigation as this depart- 
ment may find it necessary to conduct independently. 

Although I have had in mind the submission to Congress of a comprehensive plan 
for the improvement of this department and the foreign service, it has heretofore 
seemed to me inadvisable to do so until conditions had developed sufficiently to 
enable me to determine with reasonable accuracy what the needs should be. I feel 
now that a definite plan for improvement should no longer be delayed, and hence 



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the appended estimates are submitted in the hope that they may meet with the 
approval of Congress and that the appropriations therein indicated may l)e made 
without delay. 

Drafting officers. — The estimates propose to increase the numl)er of drafting officers 
from 11 to 108. This may at first seem a large increase, but it must be considered 
in the light of the fact that the State Department of the United States has been utterly 
unequal in number and character of personnel to like departments of other Govern- 
ments, and even with all the increase in personnel and the addition of men from the 
foreign service since the beginning of the war the department is still clearly inadequate 
to the task which it faces, and \dtal national interests as well as important private 
interests are in grave danger of being sacrificed unless there be provided a sufficient 
number of competent officers to give them the attention they require. The work to 
be done is beyond the ability of clerks. It requires the most capable staff that can 
be gathered together. Some will be expected to act as chiefs and assistant chiefs of 
divisions, others will be experts or specialists on particular subjects entering into 
international relations, and still others will be administrative assistants. The success 
or failure of the conduct of our foreign affairs by the Department of State will, in 
many respects, depend upon the attitude of Congress toward this item in the estimates. 
Assistant solicitors. — It is proposed to increase the number of assistant solicitors 
from five to eight and to fix the salaries of the additional ones at $3,500 a year. The 
great amount of extra work in the department caused by the war and the department's 
relations with various war boards have raised an unprecedented number of legal 
questions which require prompt and thorough consideration. The attention of the 
solicitor and his staff has been taken up almost entirely with questions arising directly 
out of the war, necessitating the temporary laying aside wherever possible of the 
questions ordinarily arising in time of peace. Upon the return of peace all of these 
deferred questions, as well as a multitude of new ones arising out of the adjustments 
due to the war conditions, and a vast number of international claims, will require 
at least as many more law officers as are now required by the purely war work. 

In asking for three additional assistant solicitors at $3,500 a year instead of $3,000 
year, I have fixed the salary at the lowest sum for which it is probable the kind of 
legal ability required can be procured. The respnsible and serious character of 
the work performed by assistant solicitors requires that they should be mature men 
of experience, ability, and high character, and $3,500 a year is believed the lowest 
salary at which the department can hope to procure men with the qualifications 
required, in competition with the salaries paid for similar services in private employ- 
ment. 

Editor of the laws of Congress. — Provision is now made for a law clerk and an assistant 
law clerk, whose duties it shall be to edit and index the laws of the United States. 
The title given to these officers is misleading and results in confusing the duties of the 
officers with those performed by law clerks in the office of the solicitor. Therefore, 
in order to distinguish clearly between the two classes of officers, it is recommended 
that the law clerk and assistant charged with editing and indexing the statutes be 
designated as "Editor of the laws of Congress" and "Assistant editor of the laws of 
Congress." The title will then indicate clearly to everyone the duties of these officers 
and eliminate confusion which now exists. 

Private secretary to the councilor, §2,500. — This is a new but highly necessary item. 
In receiving the large number of foreign representatives and public men, and in 
dealing with the multitude of important cjuestions that fall within the jurisdiction 
of the Councilor of the Department of State, it is imperative that he should have a 
private secretary able to assume responsibility and capable of managing his office 
and relieving him of a vast amount of detail. The kind of man required for this 
position can not be obtained permanently for less than $2,500, which is the amount 
paid to the private secretary of the Secretary of State. That this is not an exorbitant 
salary for the duties to be performed is established by the fact that the salary of the 
private secretaries to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of War is 
$2,400, that of the private secretaries to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and of Labor 
is $2,100, and the salaries of private secretaries to some of the Cabinet officers run 
as high as $3,000. It is of much importance that the counselor, whose duties require 
him to receive more foreign ambassadors and ministers and public men than any other 
officer of the department except the Secretary of State himself, may be able to retain 
the services of a man competent to fill this responsible and delicate position. 

Clerks. — The estimate for the regular clerical force provides for an increase of 56 
clerks of all grades. In view of the great increase, both in volume and in importance 
of the depa,rtmental work, which will unquestionably continue for an indefinite period, 
it is felt that provision should be made for at least the estimated increase in the per- 
manent clerical force. "When it is considered that the personnel of the department 



60. IISrCEEASE IN STATUTOEY SALABIES. 

actually employed at present is 760, instead of 241 in 1914; that the increase in the 
pieces of mail received daily has been from 264 in 1914 t o 914 and over in 1918; that 
the number of telegrams and pieces of mail forwarded shows an increase of over 350 
per cent in the same period, it will be seen that the estimate for increased permanent 
clerical staff is most conservative. A larger increase has not been estimated for in 
this place because of the increase requested in the appropriation for additional em- 
ployees, since it is believed Congress would prefer, for the present, to leave unde- 
termined the amount of clerical force required permanently. There can be no ques- 
tion, however, that the increase in regular clerks here required is necessary and that 
the full number and many more will be reciuired for years to come. 

Messengers, laborers, siuitchboard operators, etc. — An increase of 4 messengers, 2 
assistant messengers, 3 messenger boys, 2 laborers, 2 switchboard operators, and 10 
charwomen is submitted. This additional subclerical force is rendered necessary 
because of the largely increased personnel of the department, as well as of the increased 
space assigned to the department through the removal of the Navy Department 
from the State, War, and Navy Building. The present regular force is entirely unable 
to meet the demands upon it. The telephone exchange requires two additional 
operators because the switchboard must be kept in operation throughout the night, 
and it may be necessary to keep it in operation the full 24 hours a day. 

Additional employees. — An increase in this appropriation from $400,000 to $500,000 
is urgently recommended. The appropriation for 1918-19 was $200,000, but the 
rapid increase in the work of the department has caused the employment under this 
appropriation up to October 1 of 384 persons, at a total compensation of |417,911 a 
year. In order to meet the anticipated deficiency in the appropriation for the current 
year the department asked Congress for an increase of |250,000, only |200,000 of 
which was granted. A further appropriation will be necessary. Allowing for a 
very moderate growth for the next 8 months, it will be seen that the department 
can hardly expect to discharge its duties satisfactorily with less than $500,000 for 
additional clerical services for the year beginning July 1, 1919. 

Stationery and furniture. — A modest increase of $5,000 in the appropriation for 
stationery and furniture, making a total of $60,000, is recommended. This is most 
conservative in view of the number of additional persons for whom provision must 
be made. 

Books and maps. — An increase in this appropriation from $2,000 to $10,000 a year 
is earnestly recommended. It is not proposed with this money to accumulate a great 
library, but rather to keep abreast of the thought and opinion in all quarters of the 
world, and especially of the activities in the fields of politics, economics, finance, 
industry, and commerce. International relations of the future must be based upon 
facts and not conjectures. Nothing could be more dangerous than to embark upon 
a course in our relations with other nations without being very sure, not only of the 
basic facts but of the probable effect of the proposed policy upon various other nations. 
It is as a means to this essential knowledge that the department must be enabled 
to utilize published information as well as that made available through other sources. 
It is believed that the amount recommended represents a conservative estimate of 
the cost of procuring the periodicals, newspapers, maps, and other publications 
necessary to the work of the entire department. 

.Salaries of ambassadors and ministers. — The new position which the United States 
has come to occupy in the affairs of the world urgently demands that the agencies 
through which the foreign affairs of this Government are conducted should be im- 
proved to a degree which shall at least compare favorably with similar agencies of 
other Governments with which the United States maintains relations. One of the 
first and most important steps in this direction is the granting of more adequate com- 
pensation to American diplomatic representatives. We have in the past been for- 
tunate in obtaining the services of many capable men to represent the country at 
foreign capitals, but, on the other hand, we have too often suffered the humiliation 
of not being able to choose as our representatives some of our men of highest attain- 
ment and most profound knowledge of public affairs, because the salaries paid by 
the Government were too inadequate and the men were not possessed of sufficient 
private means in addition to enable them to maintain themselves in a manner appro- 
priate to a diplomatic representative of this Government. The time seems now to 
have arrived when that condition should be changed. The United States can derive 
little satisfaction from the fact that its ambassadors are paid $17,500 a year without 
being furnished with houses or allowances with which to keep up an appropriate 
social position, while Great Britain, for example, pays its ambassador to Italy $35,000 
a year, that to Japan $25,090, that to France $57,500, and in each instance supplies 
in addition a well-equipped residence. The practice of Great Britain is more or less 
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lias so far failed to pay its diplomatic representatives salaries upon which they can 
live in a manner appropriate to their position mthout resorting to their own private 
means. It is unworthy of the greatest democracy of the world that this condition 
should in so many instances have tended to restrict the appointments of ambassadors 
and ministers to men possessing large private fortunes. What is urgently needed 
is compensation sufficient not only to attract but to enable men personally and intel- 
lectually capable of representing the country to accept positions as ambassadors 
and ministers at foreign capitals without regard to the extent of their own private 
fortunes. I am, therefore, recommedning that the compensation of our ambassadors 
be increased from $17,500 to |25,000 per annum and that the salaries of ministers be 
increased from $10,000 and $12,000 to $12,000 and $15,000, respectively. It seems 
to me that this is the least arnount with which we can hope to enable our diplomatic 
representatives to live in a manner comparing at all favorably with the representatives 
■of other Governments, and that it is in the interest of the country that this change 
be made without further delay. 

Sea'etaries in the diplomatic service. — ^The faults that have been pointed out in our 
method of compensating ambassadors and ministers exist also in the method of com- 
pensating secretaries. We think it entu'ely proper to pay salaries of $1,500 to $3,000 
to the clerks and officers of the executive departments in Washington who have no 
social obligations and bear only routine responsibility, yet we deny to the secretaries 
in our Diplomatic Service salaries sufficient to enable them to maintain themselves 
in a manner consistent with the proper discharge of their duties. As the lieutenants 
of the ambassadors and ministers, the secretaries must be able to mingle with all 
classes of peoples and associate upon a plane of equality with the members of the 
highest social and official circles of the capitals in which they are stationed. There 
are two ways of accomplishing this object; one, by increasing the salaries of secretaries, 
and the other, by restricting the appointment of secretaries to persons in possession of 
private fortunes. In the light of present-day tendencies, it does not seem possible 
that the United States can take any other position than to make the salaries of secre- 
taries ample and of opening the positions to all persons who may possess the qualifi- 
cations required, irrespective of the amount of their private fortune. If this be done, 
the secretarial branch of the service can be made truly representative and attractive 
to some of the ablest young men in the country. 

It is recommended, therefore, that the salaries of secretaries be increased to $6,000, 
$4,000, $3,000, and $2,500 instead of $3,000, $2,600, $2,500, $2,000, and $1,500 as at 
present. 

It is also desired to increase the number of secretaries from 88 to 110 to meet the 
needs of the various missions and the two additional missions to Bulgaria and Serbia, 
which are included in the estimates. Therefore, an increase of $134,500 in the appro- 
priation under this head is recommended. 

Interpreters to the legations in Persia and Siam, $2,000. — Appropriations of $1,000 
and $1,500 are now made for the compensation for interpreters to the legations and 
consulates general in Persia and Siam, respectively. Obviously no competent and 
suitable American could be employed as interpreter permanently for the amounts 
appropriated. The interpreter at present employed in Persia is a young American 
who received his training as a member of the corps of student interpreters in Constanti- 
nople, and while he has served efficiently in the legation in Persia, it can not be ex- 
pected that he will be willing to continue in that position at $1,500 a year. The work 
of the legation can not possibly be carried on without the services of a satisfactory 
interpreter. That he should, if possible, be an American citizen, needs no expla- 
nation. 

That which has been said in regard to Persia is equally true in regard to Siam, 
except that the interpreter employed there is a native and is paid but $1,000 a year. 
The services of competent and satisfactory interpreters can not be had for less than the 
amount estimated, namely, $2,000, and it is earnestly recommended that that amount 
be appropriated. 

Salaries of student interpreters in China, Japan, and Turkey. — The law at present fixes 
the salary of student interpreters at $1,000 a year. At the time this salary was estab- 
lished, some 16 years ago, the amount was sufficient, but since then the cost of living 
has greatly increased, audit has become impossible for the department to obtain for 
these positions, as now compensated, men with suitable qualifications. In order to 
be useful as an interpreter in the service a young man should be well educated, of 
excellent personal appearance, and should possess a high order of ability. Men of 
thistype willnot enter the student interpreter corps at less than $1,500 a year in 
addition to tuition and quarters. Last year Congress increased the entrance salaries 
of consular assistants from $1,000 to $1,500 per annum. A like increase is now earnestly 
recommended in the salaries of the student interpreters. A number of men trained 



62 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

in tliis corps are now filling important positions as consuls and consuls general in 
the Far and Near East, and there is the most urgent need for additional men who have 
had training as student interpreters. It is believed the increased salaries requested 
will make it possible to obtain the additional men required. 

Tuition of student interpreters. — ^At present there is provided for each student inter- 
preter in China, Japan, and Turkey a yearly allowance of $180 in China and $125 in 
Japan and Turkey for the cost of tuition. This is due to the fact that it is necessary 
in those countries for each student to have an individual teacher. In view of the 
increased cost of living abroad and the change in salaries and wages, a satisfactory 
teacher can not now be had for less than approximately $200 a year. Therefore it is 
recommended that this sum be provided. 

Contingent expenses, foreign missions, $1,200,000. — This appropriation is desired to 
provide for the ordinarj^ running expenses of the Diplomatic Ser\'ice. 

The appropriation for the expenses of operation of the Diplomatic Service for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, was $1,005,585, but it soon became apparent that that 
amount would not be sufficient, and a deficiency appropriation of $100,000 has already 
been granted by Congress, making the entire appropriation available for the current 
year $1,105,585. Even this amount is less than that expended for the year ended 
June 30, 1918, which was approximately $1,180,585. Assuming, therefore, that the 
expenditures for the mainteliance of the Diplomatic Service should continue at 
approximately the present rate, it is believed that not less than $1,200,000 will be 
required for the next fiscal year to cover the cost of rent, telegraphing, equipment 
of offices, stationery, telephones, messenger service, and the multitude of other ex- 
penses that enter into the operation of the service. 

Transportation of diplomatic and consular officers and clerics. — It is recommended that 
the appropriation for transportation for diplomatic and consular officers and clerks 
in going to and returning from their posts or when traveling under orders of the Secre- 
tary of State be increased from $150,000 to $175,000. The number of officers, and 
especially of clerks in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, is steadily increasing, 
and the law provides all officers and clerks in both branches of the service with travel- 
ing expenses to and from their posts of duty. 

I deem it my duty to emphasize again the importance of a change in the language 
of the appropriation for transportation so that each officer shall be reimbursed not 
only for the actual expenses of transportation of himself but also for those of trans- 
porting his family and effects, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of State 
may prescribe. The existing appropriation authorizes the payment of "actual and 
necessary expenses at the rate of not exceeding 10 cents per mile " of the officer him- 
self. This does not meet the needs of the service on the one hand, because it is even 
less generous than the old flat rate of 5 cents per mile, and it is objectionable from 
the standpoint of administration because it requires the accounts to be kept in two 
forms, namely, a detailed account of actual expenses and a detailed account of mile- 
age at the rate of 10 cents per mile. As stated, the allowance of 10 cents a mile is 
scarcely sufficient for the transportation of officers alone. All steamship lines have 
greatly increased their rates. But it is not only in the steamship transportation that 
the increased expenses occur. Land travel is now subject to many delays. For 
example, an officer seeking to go from Berne to Marseille was compelled to wait a 
day and a night in Genoa for accommodations on a train to Marseille. Obviously, 
the lawful allowance for mileage did not nearly meet that officer's expenses. Another 
officer who was recently sent to a post in Russia and who was accompanied by his 
wife and small child incurred an expense for transportation of over $900, yet imder 
the law the Government reimbursed him for only a portion of that amount. 

These cases are merely typical of a large number where the allowance made by the 
Government is utterly inadequate to meet the expenses of traveling under orders of 
the department, largely owing to the enforced delays at various points en route and 
while awaiting the departure of steamships. Under this system nearly every officer 
transferred from one post to another begins Jiis work at the new post with a large 
part of his salary already expended, or at least obligated, for traveling expenses. 
Officers of the Diplomatic and Consular Service have been required to spend 
thousands of dollars for expenses of -the character described in traveling under orders 
of the de^jartment within the last four years, and as a result have suffered hardships 
which ought not to be imposed even in times of peace, and certainly not at the present 
time. 

International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico. — The International 
Boundary Commission, tlnited States and Mexico, has been carrying on its work and 
at a recent meeting of the joint commission decided to take up the survey of the 
bancos in the lower valley and at other places below Fort Quitman because of the 
complaints from the inspectors of customs and immigration officials that they were 



INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 63 

unable to determine the location of the international boundary line at many places 
because of the numerous avulsive changes in the river. It is hoped diu-ing the present 
fiscal year to survey and eliminate practically all the bancos below Fort Quitman 
and to" devote next year mainly to the El Paso Valley and the Colorado River. 

It is desired by the American commissioner, whose views are concurred in by the 
Mexican commissioner, to reestablish and operate gauging stations along the Rio 
Grande. Because of the revolutions the Mexican Government stopped making 
these measurements in 1911. They were kept up in an imperfect and desultory 
manner by the American section until 1914, since which time no measurements 
have been made. In order that the American Government may be in a position to 
protect itself in any controversy that, in the near future, may arise with the Mexican 
Government in regard to the water of the boundary stream, it should have full infor- 
mation in regard to the normal flow of the river at different places and the source of 
the water; also the amount and source of the flood waters. These facts can be obtained 
only by taking measurements at gauging stations over a period of years. This work 
it is estimated will cost about .|10,000 for the next fiscal year. 

The residents along the Rio Grande have made numerous demands for the con- 
servation of the water and the irrigation of the fertile valleys lying along the river . 
The commission desires, therefore, to inA'^estigate the dam and reservoir sites as 
occasion may demand, at a cost of $5,000. This estimate is also submitted for the 
consideration of Congress. 

The estimate of the commission is, therefore, as follows: 

Salaries: 

Commissioner 15, 000 

Consulting engineer 4, 800 

Secretary and special disbursing officer ; 4, 000 

Assistant engineer 2, 500 

Clerk and stenographer, El Paso office 900 

Survey of a portion of the El Paso Valley, including salary special engineer 

and draftsman : _. 20, 000 

Investigations that may be considered necessary, including that of the Colorado 

River 5, 000 

Telegraph, telephone, and miscellaneous office expense 1, 500 

Traveling expense 3, 000 

Reestablishing and "operating gauging stations along the Rio Grande 10, 000 

Conservation of the water for irrigation of the fertile valleys along the Rio 

Grande 5, 000 

Total 61, 700 

United States court for China. — It is recommended that the appropriation for the 
expenses for the United States court for China be increased from $9,000 to $10,000 in 
order that a compilation of the decisions of the court may be prepared and published . 
During the period of its existence the court has rendered numerous decisions, some 
of which are very important and of wide application as precedents, but it has not 
thus far been possible, owing to the lack of appropriation and authority, to have 
those decisions published in a form that would make them accessible to individuals 
and other courts. It is desired that this be done without further delay. 

Salaries, consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls. — The second most important 
agency abroad for the protection of American interests and the promotion of good 
feeling and understanding on the part of the peoples of other nations is the Consular 
Service. With the approach of peace that service faces a task infinitely greater and 
more complex than which the like service of any nation has ever confronted. It is 
generally admitted that we have had for several years the most efficient Consular 
Service in the world, one which in most respects fully met the needs of the United 
States and rendered invaluable aid to our commerce. But conditions have now 
changed. Our respQUsibilities have been greatly multiplied, our commerce is to be 
revived, and the greatest merchant marine any nation ever had is to be operated. 
For all of these reasons we must have a consular service not only capable of dealing 
successfully with the usual questions and commercial problems, but also one whose 
personnel is able correctly and adequately to represent abroad the best there is of 
American life, intelligence, and character. We must rely upon our consuls to a 
great degree for aid in the expansion of our commerce, but -v^e must also remember 
that clear understanding and friendship and good will are among the greatest factors 
in influencing trade and that consuls of the right type, assisted by adequate staffs and 
appropriately maintained, can be of untold service in this relation. 



64 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

The existing consular organization is believed to be in the main all that can be 
desired, but it needs to be greatly expanded by the establishment of additional con- 
sulates and vice consulates, by increasing the consular staffs everywhere, and, above 
all, by increasing the salaries in the lower grades and affording more generous expense 
allowances in order that the service may attract our young men of real ability, intel- 
ligence, and culture. The day of the $2,000 to $3,000 consul has long since passed. 
Within the last few years the Government has lost the services of a number of the 
most capable men in the Consular Service, who were induced to enter private em- 
ployment at salaries ranging from twice to three times those that were paid by the 
Government. _ While it is well understood that the Government can not enter into 
actual competition with private corporations, I am quite sure that a modest increase 
in consular salaries, especially in the lower gi-ades, and more generous treatment of 
officers in the allowances made to them for transportation would cause many men to 
remain in the service who otherwise would be attracted to private employment. 

In view of the foregoing, I ask that a sufficient sum be provided to enable the Pres- 
ident to fix the niinimum salary of consul general at |5,500; that for a consul at $3,500; 
and to establish professional vice consulates with salaries of |3,000, $2,500, and $2,000; 
to create approximately 150 vice consulates in charge of American citizens in lieU 
of the consular agencies now maintained, a part of which are in charge of Americans 
and a part of which are in charge of foreigners ; to appoint at least 25 additional con- 
suls mth an average salary of approximately $4,000 and to provide 2 additional con- 
sular inspectors. 

I desire also to urge most strongly that provision be made for the appointment of 
25 economic experts, to be paid salaries of $5,000 a year, whose duty it shall be to act 
as reporting officers at the most important consulates general and to aid the consuls 
general in the collection and coordination of information obtained from the other 
consular officers in the country, as well as thi'ough independent investigations. In 
view of the high commercial activity which will follow the advent of peace, it is 
probable that even a larger number of expert assistants will be required, but the need 
for at least 25 economic experts is vouched for by such economic offices as those of 
the War Trade Board and War Industries Board, which have depended largely upon 
the Consular Service for economic information. The average consul general is too 
busy \vith a multitude of administrative duties to be able to give adequate attention 
to the full development of the economic work of the consuls under him, and, further- 
more, few consuls general possess the training requisite for the kin4 of work for which 
there is just now an urgent need. The assignment of economic experts to the offices 
of the consulates general to take charge of the strictly economic and industrial infor- 
mation work of those offices and to give expert supervision to that branch of the work 
being done by the consular officers in the country will lead to a development of that 
branch of the work to a degree that has never before been feasible, with corresponding 
benefit to American commerce and industry. The expenditure involved, when 
measured against the dangers which may well be averted and the positive benefits 
which may result, would indeed be very small, and in this relation it is also perti- 
nent to remark that the means proposed of improving the economic work of the Con- 
sular Service is in no sense designed to parallel or duplicate the work now being done 
by other agencies of the Government, notably those of the Department of Commerce. 
Irrespective of the investigation work done by that department and its agents for 
its own purposes, the Consular Service must always continue to be, in addition 
to the administrative and political work which it must necessarily perform for the 
Department of State, the principal agency of the Government for the gathering of 
economic and industrial infjormation for this department, the Department of Com- 
merce, and the entire Government. It is, therefore, of the highest importance that 
the service be strengthened in every way possible. 

The total cost of the foregoing additions to the service as now constituted will be 
but approximately $746,000, which is indeed a very modest sum when considered in 
the light of the benefits which will inevitably result to our commerce and through 
the improvement of our relations with other nations. 

Expenses, consular inspectors. — ^Congress has for a number of years appropriated 
$3,000 a year for the expenses of each consular inspector while engaged in inspecting 
under the direction of the Secretary of State. The department is now estimating 
for two additional inspectors, and it is believed that a larger sum should be provided 
for expenses of the inspectors, in view of the increased cost of transportation and 
hotel expenses. It is, therefore, recommended that the appropriation for the expenses 
of inspectors be increased from $15,000 to $25,000, a net increase of $10,000. 

Post alloivances. — The appropriation of $700,000 for post allowances for diplomatic 
and consular officers for the current fiscal year has so far been ample for the purpose, 
but in \-iew of the increases in the number of secretaries in the Diplomatic Service 



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and of consular ofBcers and the probability that living expenses in foreign countries 
will increase rather than decrease during the next year it is strongly urged that Con- 
gress grant an increase of $100,000 in this appropriation. No appropriation made for 
this department has been of greater assistance in increasing the efficiency as well as 
in relievihg the anxiety of many deserving officers than that made for post allowances. 

The appropriation for the current fiscal year is limited to belligerent countries and 
countries contiguous thereto, including the offices at Hongkong, Saigon, Tsingtau, 
Dairen, and Vladivostok. A subsequent item in the deficiency bill amended this 
provision so as to make the appropriation applicable to consular and diplomatic 
officers "regardless of where stationed and to the officers of the United States Court 
for China." Inasmuch as some of the countries where the cost of living, not only by 
reason of the purchase price of supplies but also by reason of the exchange, is 
increased — such , for example , as Chile — -would be exempted from the benefits of the 
post allowance if the appropriation as originally passed were continued , it is urgently 
recommended that the limitation as to posts be eliminated and that the appropriation 
be applicable to all diplomatic and consular officers wherever stationed as well as to 
officers of the United States Court for China. 

Cleric hire, United States consulates. — An increase is recommended in the appropria- 
tion for this purpose from $818,000 to $1,200,000, the object being to provide, first, 
for the natural increase in clerical work; second, for clerks for 25 new consulates; 
third , for clerks for 25 economic experts ; and , fourth , for clerical assistance for approx- 
imately 150 vice consulates. The lack of adequate clerical service, due to a great 
degree to insufficient appropriations, has been one of the greatest obstacles to efficiency 
in the Consular Service for several years. That deficiency must now be remedied 
and each office put on a businesslike basis by providing adequate clerical assistance 
and relieving the head of the office of the routine duties and enabling him to inter- 
view people and to gather information and give personal attention to matters of real 
consequence. A consul who is confined to his office by routine duties can not properly 
fulfill the requirements of his post or render the Government the service which it has 
the right to expect from him. 

Expenses, prisons for American convicts. — ^Tien the prison at Shanghai was, by the 
last appropriation act, placed under the charge of the United States marshal for China, 
the positions of jailer and assistant jailer were abolished and in lieu thereof a salary 
for a deputy marshal, $1,200, was provided. No provision, however, was made for 
an assistant or second deputy, and it is, of course, necessary that there should be two 
such officers, as one must be on guard as jailer all the time. It is therefore recom- 
mended that provision be made for compensation at $800 for a second deputy marshal. 

It is also desirable that the provision for keeping, feeding, and transportation of 
prisoners be slightly amended, so that long-term prisoners when transferred to prisons 
m United States territory may still continue under the jurisdiction of the United 
States court pending the expiration of their sentences. 

Contingent expenses, consulates. — -An increase in the appropriation for contingent 
expenses from $828,000 to $1,168,000 is recommended in order to provide for traveling 
expenses for 25 economic experts at the rate of approximately $2,000 each per annum; 
contingent expenses for 25 consulates at the rate of approximately $2 ,500 per annum , 
and for 150 vice consulates at the rate of approximately $1,500 per annum. Rent, 
telephonic, telegraphic, and other expenses are not decreasing but are rather increas- 
ing. New consulates will have to be equipped and housed, their operating expenses 
met, and officers in the service will have to be provided with funds for travel in their 
districts. It is only by generous allowances for operating expenses that the consulates 
can be made of real value to the Government. It is believed that the estimate herein 
made is most conservative, and it is hoped that it may be granted. 

The International Trade- Marks Registration Bureau. — On August 20, 1910, the fourth 
national conference of the American States at Buenos Aires formally adopted a con- 
vention for the protection of trade-marks. The convention was ratified by the United 
States on the 21st of March, 1911, and proclaimed by the President on September 16, 
1916. It has also been ratified by Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Hon- 
duras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Costa Rica. The convention provides for two registra- 
tion bureaus, one at Habana and one at Rio de Janeiro, and that at Rio de Janeiro 
was intended to render applications from the 10 Republics of South America, while 
that at Habana was intended to serve North and Central America and the West Indian 
Republics. Each bureau was to be established as soon as two-thirds of the countries 
comprising the group which it was to serve should have ratified the convention. The 
requirements as to ratification having been met, the Cuban Government, charged 
with the administrative execution of the convention, was able in the winter of 1917 

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to initiate the bureau at Habana. On July 6, 1918, the President of Cuba promul- 
gated a law for the initial expenses of the bureau, and in August of the present year a 
director of the bureau visited Washington and conferred with the appropriate officials 
of this Government concerning the regulations to carry the convention into effect. 
The convention provides that the expenses shall be defrayed by the signatory States 
in the same proportions as that established for the International Biu-eau of American 
Republics, namely, all contributions in proportion to population. The total expenses 
of the btu'eau are estimated at $62,000, of which the quota of the United States amounts 
to $56,449.54, which this Government is now obligated to pay as a signatory to the 
convention. It is recommended, therefore, that there be now appropriated the sum 
of $56,450 to meet the share of this Government in the expense of maintenance of the 
International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau. 

International Trade- Mark Registration Bureau Building at Habana. — The Cuban 
Congress has directed the President to cede to the new bureau an adequate and proper 

garcel of land within the limits of Habana. The President has in mind a lot of land 
onting the new presidential palace and now occupied by a park. This lot, which 
has an area considerably greater than that occupied by the Pan American Union, is 
worth not less than $150,000. 

In addition, the National Congress has appropriated $25,000 toward the cost of con- 
structing a building. Thus, the total contribution of Cuba may be estimated at 
approximately $175,000. 

The construction of a building worthy of the site certain to be assigned, together 
with its proper furnishing and equipment, can not be estimated, in view of the build- 
ing situation in recent years, at much less than $1,000,000. The contribution of the 
United States to the cost of such a building could not well be less than five times that 
of Cuba, but if it were possible to appropriate $825,000, the cost of construction by 
careful management could be held within the limit suggested, and the United States 
would have complied fully with its proportionate obligation. The construction of 
such a building would follow, naturally, an international contest in which architects 
from all nations might take part— the method followed in the case of the Pan American 
Union and the recently begun presidential palace of Cuba, 

Such a home as is contemplated for the biureau would necessarily be a monument 
of considerable aesthetic and political value, as well as a seciure and spacious edifice 
for the safeguarding of the precious registration records of industrial property. 

The cost of constructing the corresponding biu*eau at Rio de Janeiro, as well as its 
cost of maintenance, will, of coiu'se, fall upon the Brazilian Government and the 
Governments composing the southern group. 

I have the honor to be, sir, 
Your obedient servant, 

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APPENDIX D. 

Reports Received Under Section 2, Act op July 11, 1890 (26 Stat., 268), "Op 
Employees Below a Fair Standard of Efficiency," and Under Section 7, Act 
OF March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 808), "Of Condition of Business," and "Of Detail 
of Employees." 



treasury department. 



The Secretary of the Treasury. 



Treasury Department, 

Washington, October 21, 1918. 



Sir: To accompany the estimates of appropriations, statement showing the condition 
of business and as to what portion of same is in arrears is herewith submitted: 

Division of Chief Clerk. — The work of this division is up to date. 

Division of Cashier. — The work of this division is up to date, with the exception of 
that relating to the collection of checks, which is 10 days in arrears, and the assortment 
of paper currency received for redemption, which is one month in arrears. 

Division of Banks, Loans, and Postal Savings. — The work of this division is up to 
date, with the exception of that in relation to the public debt, which is one week in 
arrears. 

Division of Accounting.- — The work of this division is up to date, with the exception 
of that relating to the statement of disbursing officers' accounts, which is three weeks 
in arrears, and the work in relation to the stoppages of payment of checks, which is 
one week in arrears. 

Division of General Accounts. — The work of this division is up to date. 

Division of Redemption. — The work of this division is up to date. 

Division of Issue. — The work of this division is up to date. 

National Bank Redemption Agency. — ^The work of this division is up to date. 
Respectfully, 

John Burke, Treasurer. 



Treasury Department, 

Office of the Secretary, 
Washington, October 25, 1918. 
The Secretary op the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith for publication in the Book of Estimates 
the following information: 

Employees of this department detailed from one bureau or office to another for one year 

or more on July 1, 1918. 



Num- 
ber. 


Position. 


Salary. 


From office of— 


To office of— 


1 
1 


Confldential clerk 
Clerk 


$2,500 

1,200 
840 


Director Bureau of Engraving and Print- 
ing- 
Commissioner of Internal Reveuue 

Auditor for Post Office Department 


Assistant Secretary. 
Secretary of the Treasury. 


1 


Skilled laborer. . . 


Do. 



Officers of the department whose quarterly reports for the fiscal year 1918 showed 
arrears of work in their respective offices during the several quarters of the year: 
Chief of Division of Loans and Currency, Secretary's office. 
Chief of Division of Printing and Stationery, Secretary's office. 
Chief of Division of Public Moneys, Secretary's office. 
Comptroller of the Treasury. 
Comptroller of the Currency. 
Commissioner of Internal Revenue. 
Captain Commandant of the United States Coast Guard. 
Treasurer of the United States. 
Register of the Treasury. 
Supervising Architect. 
Auditor for the Treasury Department. 
Auditor for the War Department. 
Auditor for the Navy Department. 



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Auditor for the Interior Department. 
Auditor for the State and Other Departments. 
Bureau of War Risk Insurance. 
Respectfully, 



J. E. Harper, 
Chief, Division of Appointments. 



Loans and Currency: 

1 clerk, class 1 

2 clerks, class E 

Chief Clerk and Superintend- 
ent: 

1 skilled laborer 

2 laborers 

4 watchmen ' 

2 charwomen 



$1, 200. 00 
1, 000. 00 



720. 00 
660. 00 
720. 00 
240. 00 



Bureau of Engraving and 
Printing: 

1 watchman 

1 forewoman of charwo- 



Treasury Department, 
Washington, November 27, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir: In compliance with the provisions of section 2 of the act of July 11, 1890 (26 
Stat., 268), I have the honor to submit herewith a report of employees of this depart- 
ment who, according to the statements of the heads of bureaus and chiefs of divisions^ 
are considered below a fair standard of efficiency in their respective grades: 

Auditor for the Navy Depart- 
ment: 
Assistant chief. Claims 

Division $2,000.00 

1 clerk, class 4 1, 800. 00 

2 clerks, class 3 1, 600. 00 

4 clerks, class D 900.00 

3 clerks, class E 1,000.00 

Auditor for. the Interior De- 
partment: 

2 clerks, class 1 1, 200. 00 

Auditor for the State and Other 

Departments: 

1 clerk, class 3 1, 600. 00 

1 clerk, class 2 1, 400. 00 

Auditor for the Treasury De- 
partment: 

1 clerk, class E 1,000.00 

Auditor for the War Depart- 
ment: 

1 clerk, class2 1,400.00 

3 clerks, class 1 1, 200. 00 

1 clerk, class D 900.00 

1 clerk, class E 1, 000. 00 

United States Guard: 

1 clerk, class 1, 600. 00 

3 clerks, class E 1, 000. 00 

1 clerk, class D 900.00 

Customs Division: 

1 clerk 2,000.00 

1 clerk, class4 1,800.00 

2 clerks, class 1 1,200.00 

Printing and Stationery: 

1 clerk, cla8s4 1,800.00 

Public Moneys: 

1 clerk, class E 1, 000. 00 

Public Health Service: 

1 clerk, class 1 1, 200. 00 

Register of the Treasury: . 

4 clerks, class E 1, 000. 00 

2 clerks, class D 900.00 

Treasurer of the United States: 

2 clerks, class 4 1, 800. 00 

1 clerk, class 2 1, 400. 00 

2 clerks, class 1 1, 200. 00 

1 clerk 1, 100. 00 

2 clerks, class D 900. 00 

1 messenger 840. 00 

1 assistant messenger 720. 00 



men 

3 charwomen 

3 charwomen 

2 laborers 

1 engraver 

1 foreman 

1 pressman. 

2 skilled helpers 

1 skilled helper 

2 skilled helpers 

5 skilled helpers 

4 operatives 

1 press cleaner 

1 coal passer 

1 dressing-room attendant. 

Auditor for the Post Office 
Department: 

2 clerks, class 3 

7 clerks, class 2 

8 clerks, class 1 

9 clerks, class E 

3 clerks, class D 

Do 

1 skilled laborer 

2 skilled laborers 



720. 00 

540. 00 
400. 00 
300. 00 
540. 00 
^7.99 
»7.03 
15.25 
»2. 88 
>2. 80 
1 2. 75 
1 2. 56 
»2.50 
12.31 
12.11 
11.28 



Bureau of Internal Revenue: 
1 clerk 

1 clerk, class 4 

4 clerks, class 3 

2 clerks, class 2 

5 clerks, class 1. 

1 clerk 

14 clerks, class E 

3 clerks, class D 



1, 600. 00 

1, 400. 00 

1, 200. 00 

1, 000. 00 

900. 00 

900. 00 

720. 00 

660. 00 

2, 000. 00 
1, 800. 00 
1, 600. 00 
1, 400. 00 
1, 200. 00 
1, 100. 00 
1, 000. 00 
900. 00 



1 Per diem. 



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The following offices report that there are no employees therein who are below a fair 
standard of efficiency: 



Secretary. 

Assistant to the Secretary. 
Assistant Secretary Leffingwell. 
Assistant Secretary Moyle. 
Assistant Secretary Rowe. 
Assistant Secretary Love. 
Appointment Division. 
Bureau of War-Risk Insurance. 
Bookkeeping and Warrants. 
Comptroller of the Currency. 
Comptroller of the Treasury. 
Disbursing clerk. 
Federal Farm Loan Bureau. 

Respectfully, 



General Supply Committee. 

Government actuary. 

International High Commission. 

Mint Bureau. 

Secret Service Division. 

Supervising Architect. 

Surety Bonds. 

Mail and Files. 

War Loan Organization. 

War Savings Committee. 

Publicity Bureau. 

Women's Liberty Loan Committee. 



Paul F. Myers, 

Chief Cleric. 



war department. 

War Department, 
Washington, October 19, 1918. 
The Secretary op the Treasury. 

Sir: In compliance with the provisions of section 2 of the act approved July 11, 
1890 (26 Stat., p. 268), I have the honor to report for the information of Congress that 
there is no employee in the War Department, except in the Quartermaster Corps, who 
is below a fair standard of efficiency. The Quartermaster Corps reports that the 
number of employees in that corps who are below the fair standard of efficiency can 
not be stated because the urgency of their work and the frec[uency with which the 
personnel is changing during the present emergency makes it impossible to answer 
this question definitely. 

In compliance with the requirements of section 7 of the act approved March 2, 1895 
(28 Stat., p. 808), I have also to report that part of the current work is in arrears in The 
Adjutant General's office and the office of the Director of Aircraft Production, and that 
a small part of the current work is in arrears in the Quartermaster CorjDs, for the reason 
that it has been found impossible to obtain the total number of employees required for 
the work of that corps. This condition is due to the increased functions and duties 
devolving upon the department as a result of the present emergency. No employees 
who are appropriated for in one bureau or office have been detailed to another biireau 
or office- for a period exceeding one year. 
Very respectfully, 

Newton D. Baker, 

Secretary of War. 



navy department. 

Navy Department, 
Washington, October 15, 1918. 

Sir: In accordance with the requirements of section 7 of the act of March 2, 1895 
(28 Stat., 808), I have to report that, considering existing circumstances, the work in all 
bureaus and offices is very well in hand. Work in certain lines is bound to be some- 
what in arrears, but with the large forces now employed it is believed that with con- 
tinued untiring effort, restriction of annual leave, overtime, and the employment of 
shifts, the work will be kept up quite satisfactorily. 

In accordance with the requirements of section 2 of the act of July 11, 1890 (26 Stat., 
268), I have to report that in so far as I have been able to ascertain none of the em- 
plovees of this department is below a fair standard of efficiency. 

In accordance with the requirements of section 7 of the act of March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 
808), I have to report that the following positions have been filled by detail for a period 
of more than one year, viz: 

One clerk, at $840. from Solicitor's office to Secretary's office. 

One clerk, at $1,400, from Solicitor's office to Judge Advocate General's office and to 
Secretary's office. 



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One clerk, at $1,000, from Judge Advocate General 's office to Solicitor's office. 
One clerk, at $1 ,800. from Judge Advocate General's office to Secretary's office. 
1 clerk, at $900, from Secretary's office to Solicitor's office. 
1 clerk, at $1,600, from Secretary's office to Judge Advocate General's office. 
1 clerk, at $1,400, from Secretary's office to Bureau of Supplies and Accounts., 
1 clerk, at $1,600, from Bureau of Steam Engineering to Secretary's office. 
1 clerk, at $1,600, from Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to Secretary's office. 
1 copyist, at $840, from Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to Office of Naval Records 
and Library. 

Respectfully, yours, 

JosEPHUS Daniels. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 



department op the interior. 

Department of the Interior, 

Washington, October S, 1918. 
Dear Mr. Secretary: In compliance with the provisions of the act approved 
July 11, 1890 (26 Stat., 268), I have the honor to submit herewith a report of employees 
of this department who, according to the statements of the bureau chiefs and the chief 
clerk of the department, are considered below a fair standard of efficiency in their 
respective grades: 



Office of the Secretaiy: 

1 clerk $1, 200. 00 

1 sergeant of watch 750. 00 

12 watchmen 720.00 

1 assistant messenger (In- 
terior Department Build- 
ing roll) 720.00 

1 carpenter (Interior De- 
partment Building roll) 900. 00 
1 skilled mechanic — 

plumber 900.00 

1 skilled mechanic 720. 00 

1 elevator conductor 720. 00 

2 laborers (1 on regular 
roll and 1 on Interior 
Department Building 
roll) 660.00 

1 gardener 600. 00 

1 laborer (Interior De- 
partment Building roll) 540. 00 

5 female laborers (Interior 
Department Building 
roll) 400.00 

4 charwomen (Interior 
Department Building 
roll) 240.00 

The following bureaus, offices, and institutions report that there are no employees 
therein who are below a fair standard of efficiency: General Land Office, Office of 
Indian Affaii's, Geological Survey, Reclamation Service, Bureau of Mines, Office of 
Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds, National Park Service in Washing- 
ton, Freedmen's Hospital, Howard University, Alaskan Engineering Commission. 
Cordially, yours, 

S. G. Hopkins, 
Assistant Secretary. 
Hon. William G. McAdoo, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



Pension Office: 

2 clerks $1, 

5 clerks 1, 

6 clerks 1, 

7 clerks 1, 

5 copyists 

4 assistant messengers . 

1 skilled laborer 

Patent Office: 

1 clerk 1, 

4 clerks..' 1, 

8 copyists 

1 copyist 

7 assistant messengers. . . . 

1 laborer (classified) 

Bureau of Education: 

2 clerks 1, 

1 skilled laborer 

St. Elizabeths Hospital: 

1 assistant engineer 

1 assistant steam fitter 

1 oiler 

3 firemen 



000. 00 
400. 00 
200. 00 
000. 00 
900. 00 
720. 00 
660. 00 

800. 00 
000. 00 
900. 00 
720. 00 
720. 00 
600. 00 

200. 00 
840. 00 

840. 00 
780. 00 
600. 00 
600. 00 



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Department op the Interior, 

Washington, October 10, 1918. 
Hon. William G. McAdoo, 

Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. 
Dear Mr. Secretary: In compliance with the provisions of the act of March 2, 
1895 (28 Stat., 808), there is transmitted herewith a list of employees of this department 
on detail from their respective offices on July 1, 1918, for a period exceeding one year. 
Cordially, yours, 

Franklin K. Lane, Secretcfry. 



Employee. 



Manning, Thomas R 

:Schutrumpf, William J... 

Green, Thomas A 

Napier, Miss Maud 

Gordon, Mrs. Julia L 

Williamson, Isaac E 

Schweickert, George C . . . 

WiltjNobleJ 

Bergin, Frank J 

Culver, Eugene L 

Holcombe, John "W 

Palmer, LeRoy A 

Rapp, William B 



Designation. 



Clerk.... 

do 

do 

do 

Assistant messenger. 
Laborer (classified).. 

Clerk 

do 

Assistant attorney. . 

do 

do 

do 

Copyist 



Van Wie, John P Clerk 



Allaire, Auguste 

O'Connor, Charles E . . 

Allen, Clarence G 

Cannon, Mrs. Johnnie. 
Kerr, Dennis M 



Cobb, William McKinley . 



Ives, Norman E. 



Reinhart, Lawrence J., jr. 

Stumph, Louis 

Walsh, Malcolm D 

Yard, Roberts 



do 

Medical examiner . 

Clerk 

do. 

do 



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.do. 



Messenger boy... 
do 

Assistant map printer 
Editorial assistant.. . 



Salary. 



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1,600 

1,200 

1,200 

720 

660 

1,600 

1,400 

2,000 

2,000 

2,000 

2, 000 

900 

900 

1,000 
1,800 
1,600 
1,400 
1,800 

1,800 



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600 
300 



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....do 

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General Land Of- 
fice. 

Office of Indian 
Affairs. 

....do. 

Pension Ofiice 

....do 

....do 

....do 

....do 

....do 

Geological Survey 

do 

do 

....do 



Detailed to- 



Offlce of Solicitor. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 
Patent Office. 
Bureau of Education. 
National Park Service. 

Do. 
Office of Secretary. 
General Land Office. 
Office of Indian Affairs. 

Do. 
Ofiice of Secretary. 

Do. 

General Land Ofiice. 
Office of Secretary. 
Do. 
Do. 
Senate Committee on 

Pensions. 
House of Representatives 
Committee on Pen- 
sions. 
House of Representatives 
Committee on Invalid 
Pensions. 
Office of Secretary. 
Do. 
Do. 
National Park Service. 



Department of the Interior, 

Washington, October 1, 1918. 
Hon. William G. McAdoo, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 
My Dear Mr. Secretary: In compliance with the requirements of section 7 of 
the act of Congress approved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 808), I have the honor to state 
that the work in this department is substantially current with the exception of the 
returns office, the office of the Solicitor of the Department, the General Land Office, 
the Bureau of Pensions, and the Patent Office. The work in the bureaus and offices 
named is, however, being expeditiously prosecuted and the arrearages gradually 
reduced. 

Cordially, yours, 

S. G. Hopkins, 
Assistant Secretary. 

POST office department. 



Office of the Postmaster General, 

Washington, D. C, October 14, 1918. 
Hon. William G. McAdoo, 

Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. 
My Dear Mr. McAdoo: In accordance with the terms of the act of March 15, 
1893, I have the honor to report that the work of the Post Office Department was 
several weeks in arrears at the expiration of the quarter ended September 30, 1918. 



INCREASE IN STATUTOBvY SALARIES. 87 

You are further informed that, based on efficiency ratings, there are no employeea 
of this department who are below a fair standard within the meaning of the act of 
July 11, 1890. 

Yours, very truly, 

J. C. KOONS, 

Acting Postmaster General. 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

Department or Agriculture, 

Washington, October 15, 1918. 
The Secretary op the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the estimates of appropriations for the 
Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920 * * *: 

EFFICIENCY OF EMPLOYEES. 

In accordance with section 2 of the act of July 11, 1890 (26 Stat., p._ 268), I have to 
report that the following employees are below a fair standard of efficiency: Office of 
the Secretary, 1 charwoman, at $240 per annum; Forest Service, 1 clerk, at $1,100, 
per annum. 

As required by section 7 of the act approved March 2, 1895 (28' Stat., p. 808), I have 
to submit the following reports concerning the condition of business and detail of 
employees: 

CONDITION OP BUSINESS. 

The business of the department generally is not in arrears. In the mechanical 
shops there is some uncompleted work. This is due largely to delays in getting nec- 
essary materials and to the natural increase in the amount of work without a corre- 
sponding increase in the force. 

DETAIL OF EMPLOYEES. 

No employees appropriated for in one bureau or office have been detailed to another 
bureau or office, except those whose details are specifically authorized by law. 

MATERIAL FURNISHED NAVY AND ALASKA RAILWAY COMMISSION. 

In accordance with the provisions of the act approved March 4, 1915 (38 Stat., p. 
1100), requiring a report of the quantity and market value of earth, stone, and timber 
furnished from the national forests to the Navy, and for use in the construction of 
railways and other Government works in Alaska, I have to state that no earth, stone, 
or timber was furnished from the national forests to the Navy Department for use of 
the Navy during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. 

Timber to the extent of 5,506,800 board feet, at a market value of |7,403, was cut 
on the Chugach National Forest, Alaska, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, 
for use in the construction of railways and other Government works in Alaska, under 
a permit issued to the Alaskan Engineering Commission, making a total of 24,493,800 
board feet, valued at 127,420, cut from the national forests in Alaska for use in the 
construction of railways and other Government works in Alaska. 

PROJECTS COMPLETED AND DISCONTINUED. 

As required by the act of August 11, 1916 (39 Stat., p. 492), I have to report that 
the following investigations or projects conducted by the department during the 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, have been completed and discontinued: 
Weather Bureau: Investigations of frost-protection methods. 

Bureau of Animal Industry: Investigations of changes in meats during preservation. 
Bureau of Plant Industry: 

Investigation and control of root-rot and similar tobacco diseases in the Southern 

States. 
Diseases of cultivated pond lilies and other aquatic plants. 
Forest Service: 

Seed studies of western yellow pine, western white pine, Douglas fir, Noble fir, 
and Amabilis fir. 



88 INCREASE IN STATUTORY SALARIES. 

Forest Service — Continued. 

Nursery practice studies of western yellow pine, western white pine, western 
larch, Douglas fir, Engelmann spruce, sugar pine, Jeffrey pine, white fir, incense 
cedar, Noble fir, Amabilis fir. Maritime pine, and Siberian larch. 
Sowing and planting studies of western yellow pine, western white pine,_ sugar 
pine, loblolly pine, western larch, Colorado blue spruce, Douglas fir, bigtree, 
incense cedar, arbor vitse, Scotch pine, Austrian pine, Chinese arbor vitse, Jef- 
frey pine, white fir, Norway pine, eastern white jpine, Noble fir, Amabilis fir, 
western red cedar, Lawson cypress. Maritime pine. Deodar cedar, Norway 
spruce, and European larch. 
Relation of brush cover to stream flow. 
Studies of methods of planting on coastal sand dunes. 
Management of the Douglas fir. 
Management of wood lots. 

Study of "damping off" in the protection of nursery stock. 
Studies of native vegetation of the United States! 
Tree studies — ^Jack pine. 
Supply of timber for war purposes — 
Black walnut for war uses. 
The walnut situation. 
Utilization of walnut for war products. 
Supply and production of white pine and Norway pine in the Lake States, 

with special reference to the possibility of securing airplane stock. 
Airplane spruce production in New Hampshire. 

Airplane spruce production in Maine, exclusive of the Androscoggin water- 
shed. 
Spruce production in New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Vir- 
ginia, and West Virginia, with reference to the supply of airplane stock. 
Spruce in the Great Lakes region. 
Spruce production in the Pacific Northwest. 
Ship timber possibilities in New England. 
Possibility of securing ship timbers in New Hampshire. 
Ship timber possibilities in Vermont. 

Tanning extract investigations in the southern Appalachians. 
Supply and utilization of tanning materials in Pennsylvania and the Lake 

States. 
Possibility of securing white oak in Maine for ship timbers. 
Massachusetts as a source of supply of ship timbers. 
Studies of the effect of different degrees of thinning Engelmann spruce. 
Studies of the relation of soil acidity to forest planting. 
Nursery practice studies of the Douglas fir. 

Studies of the value of native plants as indicators of planting sites. 
Studies of sites suitable for planting blue spruce. 

Studies of the volume, growth, and yield of white fir. Douglas fir, Alpine fir, and 
Engelmann spruce. 
Bureau of Chemistry: 
Potato analyses. 

Investigation of the cleaning of oysters. 
Standards for rice mill by-products. 

Effects of storage and transportation on composition of corn. 
Investigation of the composition of malt beverages. 
Investigation of canning processes and canning methods. 
Analysis of authentic samples of vanilla and Tonka beans and extracts prepared 

therefrom; study of commercial methods for manufacture of such extracts. 
Investigation of enameled cooking utensils. 
Separation and identification of alcohols in food products. 
Investigations of the manufacture of fruit sirups, jams, jellies, preserves, and 

marmalades, together with their chemical analysis. 
Investigation of the composition of foreign ports, sherries, and other wines. 
Investigation of the composition of brandies. 
Investigation of the composition of cordials. 
Study of methods of analysis of distilled liquors. 
Bureau of Soils, soil surveys, as follows: 

Alabama: Morgan and Shelby County areas. 

California: El Centre and Upper San Joaquin reconnoissance areas. 

Florida: Flagler County area. 

Georgia: Floyd, Early, Pierce, and Pulaski County areas. 



INCKEASE IN STATUTOEY SALARIES. 89 

Bureau of Soils, soil surveys, as follows — Continued. 

Idaho: Nez Perce and Lewis County areas. 

Indiana: Adams and Lake County areas. 

Iowa: Black Hawk, Buena Vista, Hamilton, Henry, Linn, ■* Montgomery, and 
Wapello County areas. 

Louisiana: La Salle Parish area. 

Maine: Caribou area. 

Maryland: Baltimore and Washington County areas. 

Mississippi: Pike and Pearl River County areas. 

Missouri: Knox, Lincoln, and Texas County areas. 

Nebraska: Chase, Morrill, Phelps, and Wayne County areas. 

New Jersey: Belvidere and Millville areas. 

New York: Oswego and Saratoga County areas. 

North Carolina: Bertie, Caldwell, and Hoke County areas. 

North Dakota: Sargent County area. 

Ohio: Mahoning County area. 

Oklahoma: Canadain County area. 

Oregon: Yamhill County area. 

Pennsylvania: Mercer County area. 

South Carolina: Horry and Newberry County areas. 

Tennessee: Maury County area. 

Texas: Bowie County area. 

Virginia: Accomac and Northampton County areas. , 

Washington: Spokane County area. 

West Virginia: Upshur and Barbour County areas. 

Wisconsin: Rock and Waupaca County area. 

Wyoming: Fort Laramie area. 
Bureau of Entomology: 

The fall army worm. 

Potato tuber moth. 

Argentine corn weevil. 

General stored-product insect pests. 

Investigation of the Argentine ant in relation to citrus fruits. 

Fluted scale investigations iu' Louisiana. 
Bureau of Public Roads: Improvement of post roads. 
Very respectfully, 

D. F. Houston, Secretary. 



department of commerce. 

Department op Commerce, 

Office op the Secretary, 
Washington, October 15, 1918. 
My Dear Mr. Secretary: There are transmitted herewith the estimates for appro- 
priations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1920. 

In compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1895 
(28 Stat., 808), I have to report that no persons were detailed for the period of the 
entire fiscal year 1918. 

In compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 11, 1890 
(]26 Stat., 268), I have to report that persons holding the following-described positions 
in the Department of Commerce are rated below a fair standard of efficiency: 
i assistant engineer, at 11,000 per annum, oflice of the Secretary. 
1 charwoman, at $240 per annum, office of the Secretary. 
1 messenger, at $840, per annum, Bureau of the Census. 
1 clerk, at $1,400 per annum. Bureau of the Census. 
1 clerk, at $1,200 per annum. Bureau of the Census. 
1 unskilled laborer, at $720 per annum, Bureau of the Census. 
The work of the department generally is not in arrears at the present time. 
Respectfully, 

William C. Redpield, Secretary. 
The Secretary of the Treasury, 

Washington, D. C. 



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department op labor. 

Department of Labor, 
Office of the Assistant Secretary, 

Washington, October 15, 1918. 
Secretary of the Treasury, 

Washington, D. C. 
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to transmit herewith estimates of 
appropriations for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. 
In compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 11, 1890 
(26 Stat., 268), I have to report that persons holding the following-described positions 
in the Department of Labor are rated below a fair standard of efficiency: 
1 clerk, at $1,200 per annum. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
1 clerk, at $1,200 per annum, Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
1 copyist, at $900 per annum. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
1- assistant messenger, at $720 per annum. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
In compliance with the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1895 
(28 Stat. , 808), I have to report that employees filling the follomng-described positions 
have been on detail exceeding one year: 

1 clerk, at $1,600 per annum, from Bureau of Labor Statistics, to office of Secretary. 
1 clerk, at $1,200 per annum, from Bureau of Labor Statistics to office of Secretary. 

1 clerk, at $1,000 per annum, from Children's Bureau to office of Secretary. 

2 clerks, at $1,200 per anitum, from Bureau of Naturalization to office of Secretary. 
Referring to the provisions of the act of March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 808), I have to 

report that the work of the department is not in arrears except in the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics and the Bureau of Naturalization. In the former bureau the work is 
decidedly in arrears, owing to the extraordinary demands made on that bureau to 
make studies and surveys for the Fuel Administration, the Labor Adjustment Board 
of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and other emergency services of the Government. 
In the latter bureau the arrearages on June 30, 1918, were as follows: On hand for 
examination, 628,713 declarations, 15,390 petitions, and 578,944 certificates of 
naturalization. In addition to the above, the filing work of the Bureau of Naturaliza- 
tion is in such a state of arrears as to impair its efficiency 30 to 50 per cent. 
Cordially, yours, 

John W. Abercrombie, Acting Secretary. 



. department of justice. 

Office of the Attorney General, 

Washington, D. C, October 15, 1918. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith estimates of appropriations for the 
service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, for the Department of Justice and courts 
of the United States. 

In accordance with section 2 of the act of July 11 , 1890 (26 Stat. L. , 268) , it is reported 
that there are no employees in this department, so far as officially informed, who are 
below a fair standard of efficiency in the work assigned them; and in conformity 
with section 7 of the act approved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 808), it is reported that 
the business of the department is not in arrears. 
Respectfully, 

T. W. Gregory, Attorney General. 



smithsonian institution, 

Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, October 14, 1918. 
Sir: In compliance with section 7 of the legislative, executive, and judicial 
appropriation act approved March 2, 1895, I have the honor to state that, within the 
limits of the appropriations, the business of the several branches of the Government 
service under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, namely, the International 
Exchanges, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the International Catalogue of Scien- 
tific Literature, the Astrophysical Observatory, the United States National Museum, 



IirCBEASE IN STATUTOEY BALAEIES. 91 

and the National Zoological Park, has been conducted in a satisfactory manner, and 
no arrearages exist in the current work. The usefulness of these several branches 
would, however, be increased should additional funds be granted. 

I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

W. D. Walcott, Secretary. 

The Secretary of the Treasury. 



federal trade commission 

Federal Trade Commission, 

Washington, October 11, 1918. 
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the estimates of appropriations for the 
Federal Trade Commission for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1920. 

Complying with the requirements of section 2 of the act of July 11, 1890 (26 Stat. 
L.,_268), and section 7 of the act of March 2, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 808), I have the honor 
to inform you that there are no employees of the Federal Trade Commission below 
a fair standard of efficiency and that the work of this commission is not in arrears, nor 
have any of our employees been detailed for a period exceeding one year prior to 
June 30, 1918. 

Very respectfully, 

William B. Colver, Chairman. 
The Secretary op the Treasury. 



APPENDIX E. 

Navy Department, 
Washington, November 8, 1918. 
Sir: In accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the sundry civil appropriation 
act of July 1, 1916, I have the honor to transmit herewith for inclusion in the Book of 
Estimates, 1920, statements of wages paid or to be paid to unclassified employees in 
navy yards and naval stations, paid from lump appropriations. 
Respectfully, yours, 

JosEPHUs Daniels. 
The Secretary of the Treasury. 



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